To further address the needs of the growing population of its youngest learners, Anne Arundel County Public Schools will open four new half-day prekindergarten sites in the 2015-2016 school year. Sites will be established at Riviera Beach, Overlook, Odenton, and Severn elementary schools. Each site will accommodate up to 40 … Continue reading
Anne Arundel County Public Schools facilities will operate on a four-day work week for the seventh consecutive year this summer, saving approximately $185,000 in operating and transportation costs without any decrease in productivity. By the end of the summer, the initiative will have saved more than $1.4 million over the … Continue reading
Fourteen AACPS career and technology students won their respective categories in the recent 42nd annual Maryland SkillsUSA State Skills Championships, an event designed to showcase the state’s best and brightest career and technology education (CTE) students. In addition, 16 county students placed second or third in their respective categories. The first-place … Continue reading
Three elementary school students, three middle school students, and four high school students from across the county are among the first-time winners of the 2015 Carson Scholars. The awards are given annually by the foundation of retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson. The Carson Scholars Fund awards college scholarships … Continue reading
UPDATED 4:15 P.M. ON FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 Superintendent George Arlotto has announced that the school system’s moratorium on field trips and other student transportation to and from Baltimore City will continue at least through Tuesday, May 5, 2015. The cancellation affects about 11 additional planned trips by schools on … Continue reading
Citing the threat of more unrest like that seen Saturday night, Superintendent George Arlotto today canceled all school system field trips and activities scheduled to be held at venues in Baltimore City through Sunday, May 3. The cancellation affects about 40 planned trips by schools ranging from elementary to high … Continue reading
The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County tonight declined to approve any of the redistricting plans that would have helped relieve overcrowding at Tyler Heights Elementary School, opting instead to await the completion of area school renovation projects and the new comprehensive school facilities study before revisiting the issue. … Continue reading
The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County will discuss and make a determination on the fate of five redistricting options involving Annapolis-area schools at its next meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The meeting will be held in the Board Room at the Parham Building, … Continue reading
Jennie Merrill, a fifth-grade teacher at Severna Park Elementary School, tonight was named the 2014-2015 Anne Arundel County Public Schools Teacher of the Year at the 29th annual Excellence in Education Awards. Catherine Klase-Markey, a social studies teacher at Archbishop Spalding High School, was named the 2014-2015 Independent Schools Teacher of … Continue reading
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that Darian Rice, a senior at Broadneck High School, is the lone Anne Arundel County recipient of a 2015 National Achievement scholarship. He is among a group of approximately 700 talented African-American students from across the country to be awarded scholarships totaling more … Continue reading