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One year later: Ivy League education at home during pandemic 04/05/2021 04:00am • Anna Kasun, a graduate of Tuscarora High in Leesburg, Va., is now a freshman at Columbia University. She���s attending from her family���s home since classes are all online. (Courtesy Anna Kasun) Nothing goes as expected. That's been the theme for many of the high school graduates who belong to Pandemic pushes DC school to provide English learners with new laptops, mental health services 04/04/2021 02:46pm • A D.C. school for adult English learners is working to overcome the wide-range of difficulties its students face switching to virtual learning during the pandemic, especially with most being both immigrants and parents. "It's been quite a journey," said Allison Kokkoros, CEO of the Carlos Ros Own any of these? New report details children's products recalled in 2020 04/02/2021 12:37am • An organization that tracks children's product safety recalls found they increased slightly last year, and it's urging parents to make sure they don't have any of these potentially dangerous products at home. The nonprofit group Kids In Danger (KID) has released annual reports on children's produ Need help finding COVID-19 vaccine? Prince George's Co. library launches 'vaccine hunter' hotline 04/01/2021 01:57pm • The Prince George's County, Maryland, Library System is now offering a way to get people linked to a COVID-19 vaccine appointment. The "vaccine hunter" hotline is offered Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The hotline number is 240-392-3622. Nicholas Brown, the library system's chief US Supreme Court rejects former MCPS teacher's request to overturn child sexual assault conviction 03/31/2021 12:01pm • CORRECTION (March 31, 2021) ��� An earlier version of this story stated Vigna represented himself at trial. This post has been corrected. A former Montgomery County Public School teacher who was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple female elementary students lost his bid at the country's hig School resource officer program gets high marks in Charles Co. survey 03/31/2021 10:41am • A Charles County Public Schools survey has given the Maryland system's School Resource Officer program strong support, with 90% of respondents saying the presence of SROs is either extremely important or important to them. According to the survey, 72.97% said it was extremely important to have SR Christian Darrisaw says playing for Washington would be 'a dream come true' 03/30/2021 05:25pm • Darrisaw says playing for WFT would be 'a dream come true' originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe Washington Football Team is scheduled to pick 19th overall in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft, a selection the franchise could use to address multiple different positions.While Nats reliever and Minnesota native Brad Hand grew up a fan of Alex Ovechkin 03/30/2021 07:03am • Minnesota native Brad Hand grew up an Alex Ovechkin fan originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonWhen Brad Hand signed with the Nationals over the offseason, he wasn’t thinking about their neighboring NHL team. Hand was thinking about the opportunity to close games for a club with World Ser Fauquier Bank, Virginia National will merge April 1 03/29/2021 08:39am • Fauquier Bank and Virginia National Bank have received shareholder approval for their previously-announced merger and will complete it April 1. (Courtesy Fauquier Bank) Fauquier Bankshares and Virginia National Bankshares Corp., parent companies of Fauquier Bank and Virginia National Bank, have Parents group says they've been targeted for opposition to teachings of critical race theory in Loudoun Co. schools 03/28/2021 09:07pm • A private parents education-reform group in Loudoun County, Virginia, says they're being targeted for their opposition to racial equity education in schools. The group, Loudoun Parents for Education, says parents, teachers and "six-out-of-nine" Loudoun County school board members are part of a cl How one nonprofit helps at-risk teenage girls in DC and Montgomery Co. 03/28/2021 02:59pm • Crittenton Services of Greater Washington aims to help hundreds of at-risk teenage girls across D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, every year -- even during the pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has been challenging for people from all walks of life and at-risk youth are no exception. "The Arlington Co.'s return-to-school plans updated following revised CDC distancing guidelines 03/27/2021 04:52am • Arlington, Virginia's public school system has detailed how it will move forward following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention���s change in guidance saying that students can sit as close as three feet apart in the classroom as long as they wear masks. Arlington County Public Schools S Montgomery Co. police release video showing officer berating, handcuffing 5-year-old boy 03/26/2021 10:22pm • Leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, are expressing strong opinions about the recently-released video of two officers from the Montgomery County Police Department yelling at and handcuffing a 5-year-old boy who had walked out of his school and did not want to return. The video The near-hour-lon House election bills start moving in Md. Senate, as Biden blasts laws limiting voting access 03/26/2021 08:23pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. With dust from ���crossover day��� still settling in the Maryland General Assembly, the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs com Maryland PTA loses charter as its president faces unrelated theft charges 03/26/2021 04:31pm • Parents and teachers in Maryland are now officially without a PTA after the national organization voted to revoke the state's charter immediately. This comes amid allegations of theft against the state's PTA president. National PTA President Leslie Boggs wrote that after more than a year of tryin