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Montgomery County schools considering 3 schedules for next school year 10/20/2021 06:41pm • When it comes to planning out the year, parents know it all comes down to the school schedule. Montgomery County schools in Maryland will consider a schedule that would have kids back to school after Labor Day. Three calendar options are on the table before the school board's Policy Management Co Prince William Co., VDOT to review intersection where 2 teens were killed 10/20/2021 12:13pm • Hours after a 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car Tuesday afternoon on Virginia State Route 15 in Haymarket, Prince William County leaders and the Virginia Department of Transportation said they will investigate the intersection where two children have died this year. The crash occurre Anne Arundel Co. superintendent addresses bus driver shortages with county delegation 10/20/2021 06:20am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. In the wake of bus driver shortages and student violence in Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Superintendent George Arlotto spoke with Montgomery Co. to consider grants for businesses that subsidize child care 10/19/2021 05:06am • The Montgomery County Council will consider legislation that would establish a matching grant program for small businesses that subsidize child care costs for their employees in the Maryland county. Montgomery County Council Vice President Gabe Albornoz said he and his co-sponsor, County Council Anne Arundel County school complex put on lockdown after report of a possible gun 10/18/2021 05:33pm • Old Mill High School and Old Mill Middle School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, went into lockdown Monday afternoon after a student reported seeing another student with a possible gun, which turned out to be a BB gun. “Shortly before dismissal, a student at Old Mill High School reported that Seneca Valley High School principal says fights forced end to Friday's football game 10/18/2021 07:29am • School leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, are clarifying what happened to bring a Seneca Valley High School football game to an early end on Friday night. In a letter to the school community Saturday, Principal Marc Cohen said the school, in consultation with law enforcement, decided to end Signs to evaluate a child for ADHD 10/18/2021 04:00am • The transition back to in-person learning among peers after pandemic imposed isolation may be happening more smoothly for some children than others. As the end of the school year's first quarter approaches, a Northern Virginia child psychiatrist recommends a close evaluation of how students are d Hello Beautiful Conference promotes body positivity for women of color 10/18/2021 03:28am •   The Hello Beautiful team from left to right: Barbara Wood, Tanzania Johnson, LaTonya Williams, Kittra Johnson and Rieyanna Bailey. (Courtesy LaTonya Williams) "Hello, beautiful." Those are the words LaTonya Williams spoke to her daughters each morning when they were growing up. Sports betting moving slowly in Maryland, despite Hogan's urging 10/16/2021 10:13am • An important meeting on the future of sports betting in Maryland has been postponed, and it's unclear when it will be rescheduled. On Thursday, the Maryland board in charge of licenses was supposed to take up applications from the state's three biggest casinos: Maryland Live!, MGM National Harbor Loudoun Co. superintendent: Sexual assault procedures ‘insufficient’ 10/15/2021 09:35pm • The superintendent of the Loudoun County, Virginia, public schools apologized on Friday for the school system's reaction to recent sexual assaults by students and outlined steps he said would improve the system going forward. “First, let me say to the families and students involved, my heart ac Bennett Elementary students head back to class next week after COVID 'pause' 10/15/2021 05:46pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Students will be back at Bennett Elementary on Monday after a weeklong suspension of in-person learning due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Of Ron Rivera understands fans being upset about late Sean Taylor announcement 10/15/2021 04:52pm • Rivera understands why fans are upset about Taylor announcement originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonWhen the Washington Football Team made the announcement it was holding the official jersey retirement ceremony for franchise legend Sean Taylor just three days before the event on Su Loudoun County School Board member resigns amid controversy 10/15/2021 04:49pm • A member of Loudoun County, Virginia’s nine-person school board has resigned. Leesburg representative Beth Barts, a first-term board member who has been embroiled in controversy in recent months, announced her resignation Friday on social media. Barts drew heat for being a member in the Face Man gets life sentence for murdering wife with a cobra 10/15/2021 07:04am • An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife has been sentenced to life in jail in what prosecutors called the "rarest of rare" cases. Sooraj Kumar set loose a highly venomous Russell's viper snake on his wife Uthra that left her in hospital for almost two months, prosecutors sai DC parents frustrated with school-based COVID-19 testing program 10/15/2021 05:20am • Excited at the possibility of having his 4- and 6-year-old kids' return to a classroom after months of virtual classes, parent Mark Histed, of Ward 1 in D.C., decided to have the pair attend school in-person for the 2021-22 school year. School staff and teachers have gone above and beyond, he sai