Marissa Horn
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Marissa Horn covers education for Capital News Service and is based in the Annapolis bureau. She is a senior multiplatform journalism major at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and has interned at The Frederick News-Post, McClatchyDC Washington bureau and The Carroll County Times. She has also worked as a reporter at The Diamondback, the University of Maryland’s independent student newspaper. Email her at mhorn13@terpmail.umd.edu, follow her on Twitter @MarissaL_Horn or find her on LinkedIn.

Budget
Worcester residents say community is behind student success

County scores highest across the board on inaugural PARCC exams

Baltimore
Elementary, middle school PARCC scores again fall short of readiness levels

Fewer than half of Maryland students passed the PARCC exam

Education
Maryland commission studies standardized-testing times in all 24 jurisdictions

Commission sets timeline for recommendations

Baltimore
New PARCC baseline starts low

Video by Gabe Katzman BALTIMORE – A majority of Maryland high school students failed to hit grade-level targets for college readiness, including alarmingly few black and Hispanic students, according to new, statewide exams scores released Tuesday by the state Board…

Air conditioners sit outside a University of North Carolina building. Courtesy of Ildar Sagdejev, via Wikimedia Commons
Education
10 percent of schools statewide lack air conditioning; some officials draw criticism in Annapolis

State officials turned the heat up on Baltimore County school officials last month after parents and students complained of the lack of air conditioning in around one-third of its schools.

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Marylanders Weigh Removal of Memorials 150 years after Civil War

Confederate monuments around the state are under review