The number of child care providers in Howard County fell by 10.88% between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2024. That’s the sixth smallest decrease in the state. Meanwhile, the number of child care slots in Howard County decreased from…
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Child care in Talbot County
The number of child care providers in Talbot County fell 16.39% between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2024. That’s the 10th smallest decrease in the state. Meanwhile, the number of child care slots in Talbot County decreased from 1,403…
Child care in Carroll County
The number of child care providers in Carroll County fell 9.55 % between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2024. That’s the third smallest decrease in the state. Meanwhile, the number of child care slots in Carroll County decreased from…
Child care in Harford County
The number of child care providers in Harford County fell 16.71% between Jan. 1, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2024. That’s the 11th largest decrease in the state. Meanwhile, the number of child care slots in Harford County decreased from 8,812…
Child care: Missing in Maryland?
“Child care: Missing in Maryland?” is the Local News Network’s comprehensive look at the child care shortages that have developed in most parts of the state since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
About ‘Child care: Missing in Maryland?’
“Child care: Missing in Maryland?” is the brainchild of Khushboo Rathore, a student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism who graduated in May. Rathore utilized the Maryland Public Information Act to retrieve several years worth of state data that…
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…
‘Unrealistic’ and ‘Unfunded’: Maryland’s Blueprint for education has counties concerned
You might think spending $16.6 billion more in state funds from 2024 through 2029 — and billions more after that — would be enough to give Maryland a world-class education system. But that’s not what many people at the…
Maryland’s Blueprint to prepare students for college and careers – and counselors lead the way
Every school district across the state is hiring career counselors to make sure all high school students are prepared for their next steps after high school by the end of the 10th grade.
Maryland’s teacher shortage: Will the Blueprint’s plan for better pay, training do enough?
Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during the week, and her job sometimes requires her to put in hours on weekends, too. “I feel like teaching is one of those jobs where we go to work…