As part of an ongoing commitment to engage and solicit input from the community about Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Interim Superintendent Nancy M. Mann...
The AACPS Weekly Digest Friday, December 2, 2005 Published for the Anne Arundel County Public Schools community by the AACPS Public Information Office. In this...
The Anne Arundel Special Education Citizens Advisory Committee, AA-SECAC, has developed a special education needs assessment survey. AA-SECAC is a partnership...
Please plan to attend the County-wide CAC meeting for December. This meeting is open to all members of the County-wide CAC as well as any interested members of...
INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUMS As part of an ongoing commitment to engage and solicit input from the community about Anne Arundel...
Though leaders from the teachers union, administrators union, countywide Citizens Advisory Committee and the county council of parent-teacher associations were...
Rich, That meeting is scheduled for today at 2:30 pm. If and when it occurs due to the weather I'd be glad to comment. Hopefully I can recap at tonight's...
Synopsis of High School Scheduling Meeting The administration is committed to making some sort of adjustment for the school year starting September 2006. The...
Sam -- Thank you for the synopsis. These are my thoughts addressing your concerns: 1) Truancies and the number of students with educational plans have ...
Sam, I agree with your concerns 100%. I thought the interim was only suppose to tide us over until a new super. was hired? Why are these drastic changes being...
Sam, Has an idea as simple as adding an almost manditory study hall been considered??? I know the concept of a study hall is old fashioned....but it worked...
I normally quietly read the posts here, but I can't resist responding to this after reading about it in the paper. I am OUTRAGED that administration (no doubt...
At this evenings BOE meeting, Mrs. Mann announced that there would be NO changes to the high school schedules this fall. The committee will continue to...
The Fiscal 2007 Operating and Capital Budgets are to be presented at the BOE meeting on January 4, 2006. This is two (2) weeks later than originally...
That's great news! This high school scheduling thing is very complicated stuff, an equation with multiple variables, and not something you rush to resolve....
The FY 2007 Proposed Operating and Capital Budgets are now available at the following weblink: http://www.aacps.org/html/press/budget/07budget.htm Public...
Folks- I wanted to let the CAC members in the county who are interested in expanding and improving the educational program offerings of an upcoming meeting. ...
If we think One Period in a school day equals one class, teacher load math is automatic. With a class size of 30 and 6 classes over two days, a teacher can...
The AACPS Weekly Digest Friday, January 6, 2006 Published for the Anne Arundel County Public Schools community by the AACPS Public Information Office. In this...
Fellow Concerned Parents, Neighbors, and Friends- Please consider attending the second of our "Concerned Parents for Our Schools" meetings tomorrow night...
I have uploaded House Bill 24 which outlines the proposed process for appointing new school board members to be effective in 2007. It can be accessed in the...
Please plan to attend the County-wide CAC meeting for November. This meeting is open to all members of the County-wide CAC as well as any interested members of...
Sam- The only difference between what is going on now and this bill, is that the bill is requiring the Governor to appoint someone that the Commission...
I agree with Peg that an important piece of the proposed bill is to limit the Governor from going outside of the nominating commission. I have concerns about...
See http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0024f.pdf House Bill 24 calls for a School Board Nominating Commission of 15 people. The Governor appoints five,...
Steve, thanks for the breakdown. This is still a bad way to choose Board members as control is still in the Governor's hands and the Governor is too far...
John, I think you've got an excellent point. At a minimum, it would be nice if Mike Busch's proposal at least required the Gang of 15 (ie the new School Board...
I'm in agreement with Steve and John that the proposed process puts BOE nominations in the hands of politicians instead of with the stake holders as it does...
