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The Maryland Board of Education sent public schools throughout the state a very important message, when it issued an opinion reversing Talbot County Public Schools’ suspension of two high school lacrosse players — context matters.
Bullying / Cyberbullying / Education / School Discipline
by Patrick Hoover · Published April 10, 2012
A recent wave of student-on-student cyberbullying through fake online social profiles has thrown the problem into the spotlight and prompted the question of what schools are doing about the issue.
Bully, the documentary that has been a hot topic of late over its R-rating, will be released in theaters on April 13 with a PG-13 rating.
Maryland has denied the proposal to shorten the five-day rule.
A new Maryland House bill intends to alter the current law that requires parents of special needs students receive necessary documents five business days before an Individual Education Program Meeting
Bar Association of Montgomery County / Education / Evaluations / IEPs
by Patrick Hoover · Published January 19, 2012 · Last modified April 9, 2019
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In most cases if your child or teen is not classified with a special education designation during elementary, middle or high school, he may never be.
HooverLaw’s Bryan Utter writes about the recent trend of flash mob crime.
Charter schools, an idea intended to promote innovation in education through the power of competition, have naturally held the greatest appeal in places where the local school systems have been the most dysfunctional — i.e. in urban centers with generally low levels of education, concentrated poverty, and high crime rates. But charter schools are not restricted solely to cities.
It wasn’t until later in the evening, Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger reported at Tuesday’s public hearing, that a group of at least 70 juveniles and teens congregated for a late night gang fight.
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