Harford County Public Schools will close two hours early on Wednesday, November 25th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. The dismissal schedule for students is as follows:
* High School: 12:00 p.m.
* North Harford Middle School: 12:00 p.m.
* Middle School: 12:45 p.m.
* Elementary School: 1:30 [...]
Advanced Placement Exams are developed by The College Board and offered to high school students nationwide in subjects ranging from English Literature to Calculus to Art History. Results from the AP Exams let students know if they are ready for college-level work and provide the rest of us with one [...]
At a number of Harford County Public Schools where the scarce H1N1 vaccine has been offered, a majority of students did not have parental consent and therefore were not immunized in school.
In six out of the 11 public schools where it has been administered, less than half of the [...]
Bel Air Tea Party organizer Tony Passaro loaded up two charter buses in the parking lot of the Harford County Government building in Bel Air this morning, headed for a health care protest in Washington D. C.
Passaro said he had about 100 people, whom he called “The Old Maryland [...]
The Harford County Health Department will offer the injectable H1N1 vaccine to pregnant women and children aged 6 months to 18 years, on Friday, November 6th at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine.
Health Department spokesman Bill Wiseman said the clinic is restricted to pregnant [...]
A bill to repeal Harford County’s development impact fee lost a co-sponsor and was defeated in a 6 to 1 vote of the Harford County Council on November 3 (Tuesday). Councilman Chad Shrodes was a co-sponsor of the repeal effort, but asked for his name to be removed from the [...]
The Harford County Health Department’s current supply of the H1N1 vaccine will be given to elementary school students today (Tuesday) at three area schools, Bel Air ES, Meadowvale ES and North Bend ES. While local health officials wait for more supplies of the H1N1 vaccine to arrive, three more Harford [...]
An outbreak of the suspected H1N1 virus hit four more Harford County public schools late last week.
North Bend ES, Aberdeen High, Forest Lakes ES and Youth’s Benefit ES brought the total number of schools with identified outbreaks of “influenza-like illness” to twelve out of 53 public schools countywide.
At the remaining [...]
Harford Republican Central Committee Member Stephen M. Wright has filed to run for Harford County Executive in 2010. Wright will challenge incumbent and fellow Republican David R. Craig.
Wright told The Dagger that he co-founded the Rt. 40 Republican Club to help Republicans and to re-elect Craig, but he said [...]
Harford County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Tomback told the school board at a work session October 19th that middle school students who complete high school coursework should receive high school credit.
Approximately 40% of HCPS students take the advanced math class Algebra I in middle school, according to Tomback. He [...]
Supplies of the H1N1 FluMist vaccine are “dribbling in”, according the Harford County Health Department spokesman Bill Wiseman. Wiseman told The Dagger that students whose parents had granted permission would be offered the vaccine by the end of the day today (Tuesday) at Aberdeen Middle School, Halls Crossroads Elementary and [...]
The Harford County Health Department has cancelled two planned seasonal flu clinics due to a lack supply. The clinics were to be held on October 26th at the Level Fire Hall and October 28th at the Health Department location in Edgewood at Woodbridge Station. The seasonal flu vaccine does not [...]
A bill to repeal Harford County’s impact fee created some strange bedfellows when it was first introduced by Dion Guthrie, a Democrat representing Edgewood and Joppatowne and Chad Shrodes, a Republican representing the rural north.
Now, the repeal effort has sparked a rift among the leaders of the anti-tax Tea Party [...]
Continuing to feel the economic crunch, Maryland county governments will be looking for new ways around a long-standing state law requiring them to fund their portion of local education budgets according to a formula known as Maintenance of Effort (MOE).
Maintenance of Effort was designed to ensure that county governments [...]
Delegate Donna Stifler used her shoe to take a whack at the cornerstone of the new Bel Air High School during a Rededication Ceremony October 11.
When a box designed to hold commemorative items wouldn’t fit all the way into the cornerstone, Stifler said she saw a bunch of men trying [...]
A local health official told The Dagger on Friday that there are currently no confirmed cases of H1N1 in school-aged children in Harford County being reported from the State Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Kurt Seetoo, an epidemiologist with the Harford County Health Department said that while some positive [...]
The Harford County Council of PTAs is gathering elected officials and leaders in education to meet with the public at a legislative forum planned for Thursday, October 15th at 7 p.m. in the Bel Air High School cafeteria.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from decision-makers about issues in education [...]
The intranasal mist form of the H1N1 vaccine will begin to become available in mid to late October in sufficient quantities to support statewide school-based vaccination programs, according to John M. Colmers, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Secretary Colmers wrote in a September 29th memo [...]
Acting on the advice of the health officials, Harford County Public Schools have postponed plans to dispense the Seasonal FluMist to elementary and middle school children to focus instead on administering the H1N1 vaccine as soon as it becomes available.
According to a September 29th letter informing parents of the decision, [...]
Is Harford County’s impact fee a vital source of revenue for public school construction, or an unfair tax that has stymied new home sales?
Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie (Dist. A) says it’s the latter. Along with co-sponsor Chad Shrodes (Dist. D), Guthrie introduced legislation on September 15th to repeal [...]
Dr. Leonard Wheeler, Vice President of the Harford County Board of Education, said at a meeting last week that racism was behind the decision by school officials not to air an address by President Barack Obama live on September 8, 2009. The speech was recorded by HCPS instead and shown [...]
Contractors claiming that the bidding process for Red Pump Elementary School was handled improperly lodged formal protests with Harford County Public Schools over contracts worth almost half the value of the base cost to build the school and planned to object at the December 15, 2008 school board meeting where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Young Democrats of Harford County invite you to a Pro Health Insurance Reform Vigil on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Harford County Courthouse in Bel Air.
Russ Kovach, President of the YDHC, offered the following description of the event:
The Young Democrats of [...]
The White House issued an advisory Wednesday that President Barack Obama will be speaking live to the nation’s school children at noon on Tuesday, September 8th in an address that can be streamed directly into the schools. The President’s speech about the importance of education was reportedly planned for weeks, [...]
The president of the Harford County Board of Education wants the Edgewood Community Council to halt the “negative press” in their community newsletter. Will the ECC comply?
In a recent email copied to several recipients, School Board President Mark Wolkow writes to the Edgewood Community Council with some general advice [...]
The Harford County Health Department has announced seasonal flu vaccine clinics at several Harford County locations. In a recent press release, the department highly recommends the seasonal flu vaccine as a primary defense against serious illness for all adults and children aged 6 months and older. The seasonal flu vaccine [...]
“No. No. No.”
That’s former Harford County Board of Education President Patrick L. Hess reacting to allegations that Red Pump Elementary School was cancelled after problems with the bid process led to protests, and the potential for legal action against Harford County Public Schools. Hess told The Dagger that the [...]
Governor Martin O’Malley today outlined over $450 million in budget cuts including reductions to local aid which will cost Harford County $9.6 million. The Governor’s plan also includes furloughs and salary reductions for state employees, but does not cut funding to public schools. O’Malley will bring his plan to the [...]
The Harford County Republican Central Committee last night selected Scott T. Gibson to fill a vacancy created by Michael Geppi, who resigned from the committee on May 27th to focus on his campaign for the Maryland House of Delegates.
Committee Chairwoman Kim Wagner said Gibson, who is also the Director of [...]
When the Harford County Board of Education cancelled plans to build Red Pump Elementary School last December, the school board was just days away from approving nearly $23 million in construction contracts that would have put shovels in the ground. The decision sparked a public debate over the fate of [...]
It came from dust, and unto dust it shall return.
The Bel Air High School building rose from the earth sixty years ago and it will be demolished sometime this October. The wreckage has already begun as a glorious new replacement building stands by, ready to welcome students at the start [...]
