C. Milton Wright High School will host the Seventh Annual College Night on Monday, February 22nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
in the school’s gymnasium. This event is FREE and open to ALL high school students and parents in Harford County. More than
80 prestigious colleges, universities, technical schools and military contacts from the Mid-Atlantic region will be participating in
the event. College Night enables Harford County high school students and their parents to meet directly with college admissions
representatives to learn more about academic studies, campus life, the admission process and tuition.
Harford Technical High School was featured in “An Introduction to ICC 700-2008 National Green Building Standard For Maryland”, a code book for the green builds in the state. This book is used by professionals and inspectors in the industry.
The students and instructors of the Construction Technologies Program recently completed a 1,008 square foot, two-bedroom modular home utilizing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes Guidelines. The home was designated as a “green build” in partnership with Harford Habitat Humanity.
The home was constructed by the students over the course of the school year and was transported to a site in Aberdeen when it was completed.
Local demand for the H1N1 vaccine still outstrips supply, but by week’s end the Harford County Health Department will have offered immunizations to students at more than half of the 53 public schools in Harford County.
Currently, there are no identified outbreaks of influenza-like illness in Harford County public schools, and nearly all of the schools with previous outbreaks are expected to have received the H1N1 vaccine by Friday, December 4, 2009.
The one exception is Havre de Grace Middle School, which first reported an outbreak on October 13th and was taken off of the outbreak list on October 30, but has yet to receive an allocation of the H1N1 vaccine from the Harford County Health Department. Department spokesman Bill Wiseman said Havre de Grace MS was not overlooked, but that past outbreaks are not a factor in determining which schools will receive the vaccine. He said that allocation decisions ...Continue Reading
This weekend, the Town of Bel Air Film Festival is being held at the Bel Air Reckord Armory on N. Main Street.
The festival opened on Friday with guest speaker Michael Sragow, film critic for the Baltimore Sun, and a screening of the 1937 Victor Fleming film Captains Courageous. Two films were screened on Saturday: first, the award-winning documentary Afghan Star, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and then, The English Surgeon, a documentary that depicts the dilemmas of a British neurosurgeon operating in the Ukraine.
But on Sunday, members of our own Harford County community will be in the spotlight.
The festival will be screening selected works by students from C. Milton Wright High School and the John Carroll School.
Harford County Public Schools (HCPS) Superintendent Robert M. Tomback, accompanied by County Executive David R. Craig, will recognize ‘Farm to School Week’ on Wednesday, September 16th, at Fountain Green Elementary School.
Dr. Tomback and the County Executive will join students during lunch, which will include locally-grown produce. A ‘Farm to School’ display will be setup for students.
For more information, contact the HCPS Food and Nutrition Department at 410-638-4078.
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
10:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Superintendent Tomback will be at the school from 10:50 – 11:15 a.m.)
Where: Fountain Green Elementary School
517 Fountain Green Road
Bel Air, MD 21015
Harford County Public Schools never planned to censor President Barack Obama’s September 8th address to the nation’s school children, but did not air the speech live so that plans could be made to use the speech appropriately, according to Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Roger Plunkett.
While acknowledging that communications from HCPS could have been “worded differently” to better convey the school system’s intentions, Plunkett told The Dagger that there had been a “misunderstanding” and that the President’s address was always going to be shown to all students. But he said the short time frame available for planning meaningful classroom activities, along with technology constraints, led HCPS to use recorded copies of the speech instead. Plunkett said principals were given some discretion as to the exact timing, but all students would view the speech by the close of school Thursday, except in cases where parents sent a note ...Continue Reading
President Barack Obama’s address today to the nation’s school children will be recorded by Harford County Public Schools and then delivered to each school “for appropriate instructional use”. Teachers will decide whether and how the speech will be presented to their students, according to a message on the school system’s website dated yesterday (Labor Day – September 7).
A message sent out by HCPS at just after 10 a.m. Tuesday indicated the school system “will provide its students the opportunity to view President Barack Obama’s address by the end of the school day, Thursday, September 10.”
Questions about the president’s speech and the accompanying classroom activities planned by the U.S. Department of Education prompted HCPS to announce late last week that the speech would not be aired live. School officials cited internal instructional guidelines preventing the streaming of live broadcasts, but left open the possibility that the address would be shown ...Continue Reading
The New Harford Democratic Club has issued an “Action Alert” to those parents, students, and Harford County residents who are upset with the Board of Education’s decision not to air President Barack Obama’s speech to students.
The alert advises those interested to attend a protest planned to be held Tuesday morning, just prior to Obama’s speech, outside the Harford County Public Schools administration building in Bel Air.
Here is the text of the release:
SPECIAL EVENT OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS OF THE THE NEW HARFORD DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Many parents of school-age children in Harford County Public Schools are outraged that the Board of Education will not air President Obama’s speech to students on the importance of education. The speech is slated to be live-streamed on Tuesday, September 8 at 11 a.m. A protest of parents and students will be held, starting at 10:30 a.m., outside the School Administration Bldg. on Hickory Ave. in Bel ...Continue Reading
It’s a rare thing to walk through a community’s physical future, to see literally the shape of things to come.
In the view of years, change has come fast to the Bel Air area. But in the view of weeks and months, it’s been a slow inching forward—a new condo project here, a piece of Route 1 redeveloped there. The cumulative effect is stunning, but the individual changes seem smaller.
Not always, though. On Thursday the first students will go to class at the new Bel Air High School, one of the largest single changes to the town’s fabric ever. I joined a few hundred other people for the school’s open house last week, the community’s first glimpse at the $65 million education leviathan.
At the very front of school is a stone slab, bearing the school’s name and noting the Classes of 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. I meant to ask a ...Continue Reading
Harford County students scored above the state and national averages on the Critical Reading and Mathematics sections of the SAT Reasoning Test, according to data released by the College Board today.
Compared to 2008, Harford County test-takers’ overall performance improved in Critical Reading (two points), remained steady in Mathematics, and dropped by two points in Writing. Harford County mean scores exceed the state in Critical Reading (507 versus 500) and in Mathematics (521 versus 502) while dropping below the state in Writing (488 versus 495).
The number of test-takers in Harford County decreased in 2009 with 1,350 graduates participating; approximately 26 percent of these were minority students. Compared to the state, African-American students in Harford County scored higher than their Maryland counterparts in both Critical Reading and Mathematics, but averaged slightly lower in writing.
“We are aligning our curriculum to ensure that our students have the skills necessary to do well on national ...Continue Reading
