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Maryland Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitment Failures,' Purported Educator Shortage Maryland Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitment Failures,' Purported Educator Shortage
Maryland Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitment Failures,' Purported Educator Shortage Maryland educators and school boards are at odds amid a national teacher shortage after claims that teachers hired through third-party contractors will receive significantly higher wages, officials say. The Anne Arundel Public Schools (AACPS) Board of Education has fired back in a statement against the claims made by the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County (TAAAC), claiming that the union holds their own interests higher than those of students. "TAAAC’s social media campaign opposing a staffing agency contract to help put caring, capable, qualified, certificated, and consistently pr…

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by Annie DeVoe
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$2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report $2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report
$2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report Anne Arundel Public Schools has reached a $2.5 million settlement in the case of the negligent death of 17-year-old Bowen Levy, who choked on a rubber glove in school and died days later at a hospital, WMAR reports.  The settlement will go to Bowen's family, whose teen boy with autism ingested the rubber glove at Central Special School in 2019.  The district released a statement on Wednesday, May 5 expressing remorse in the "preventable death," which reads in part: "Bowen’s death has had an enormous impact on many, but nowhere has that impact been more massive than on h…

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by David Cifarelli