Anne Arundel schools pioneer rapid-response program for teens dealing with substance abuse

Karen Siska-Creel, Anne Arundel County’s school health and support director, knows from experience that if a problem pops up in the community, it won’t take long for it to appear in schools. When the opioid epidemic began to spread in…

Will Maryland’s Blueprint for education work? An oversight board — and district officials — will be watching

Maryland plans to spend $16.6 billion through 2029, along with billions more after that, to improve its public schools.  But will it work?  State legislators created a seven-member oversight board to ensure it would.  The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a…