Monthly Archives: December 2019

Superintendent George Arlotto tonight recommended to the Board of Education a $1.36 billion operating budget for Fiscal Year 2021 that includes compensation increases for employees and 195 classroom teaching positions to address near historic enrollment increases and reduce class sizes. More than 91 percent of the new positions in Dr. … Continue reading →

Reaching the highest credential in teaching, 56 educators from across the  county are now National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs). Thirty-two of this year’s achievers renewed their certifications while the other 24 teachers met the lofty standards for the first time. AACPS now boasts a total of 544 educators who have … Continue reading →

Superintendent George Arlotto will present his recommended operating and capital budgets for Fiscal Year 2021 at the next meeting of the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. The budgets chart the course for the school system for the coming fiscal … Continue reading →

Fourteen teachers from all levels of the school system were named today as semi-finalists for the 2020 Anne Arundel County Public Schools Teacher of the Year.  They are: Matthew Bem, a biology teacher at Broadneck High School Lindsay Breach, a fourth-grade teacher at Glendale Elementary School Jaclyn Cockcroft, an art … Continue reading →

If you’re going to start an Aviation Technician Maintenance Program to train future aircraft mechanics, it stands to reason you need an aircraft on which students can do hands-on work. Thanks to Northrop Grumman Corporation, Anne Arundel County Public Schools now has just that. Northrop Grumman officials today officially transferred … Continue reading →

Superintendent George Arlotto today delivered to the Board of Education his recommendation regarding the redistricting of school boundaries in the Broadneck cluster in order to best utilize, to the extent possible, the space available at the cluster’s five elementary schools and two middle schools. Dr. Arlotto is recommend shifting four … Continue reading →

The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County today elected Michelle Corkadel as president and Melissa Ellis as vice president. Corkadel was elected to a six-year term to represent District 7 on the Board in November 2018 and took part in her first Board meeting on December 3 of that … Continue reading →

Anticipated increases in federal Title IV grant funding to Anne Arundel County Public Schools will allow for the establishment or expansion of co-curricular robotics programs at county high schools as part of a program announced by Superintendent George Arlotto today. All high schools have the opportunity to apply for a … Continue reading →

Seventy-three county schools – nearly 65 percent of those assessed under the Maryland Report Card five-star accountability system – increased their rating in the 2018-2019 school year, with 20 of those moving up two stars, according to data released by the Maryland State Department of Education today. Overall, 62 percent … Continue reading →