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Maryland bill would allow therapy dogs in schools 02/09/2021 06:19pm • COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A bill in the Maryland General Assembly would require public schools to allow the use of therapy dogs. There’s currently no Maryland-wide policy for these dogs. Under the law — filed in the House of Delegates as HB713, and in the state Senate as SB419 — certified ca Loudoun County schools complete 1st stage of employee COVID-19 vaccination 02/08/2021 10:19pm • Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, completed their first stage of employee coronavirus vaccinations last week and are preparing to move on to administering second doses. After finishing the first stage last Friday at its distribution site at Brambleton Middle School, the school system will tran Montgomery Co. teacher concerned about vaccine availability 02/08/2021 09:36pm • Teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland, said they're hoping to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the classroom, while the school system is asking retirees to help fill in once schools reopen. One Montgomery County teacher, who spoke to WTOP on the condition that his name not be us House overrides Hogan’s veto of education reform plan, other measures 02/08/2021 09:35pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The House voted Monday to override Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s veto of a multibillion-dollar education reform plan, known as the Bluepr Even with some students back in classroom, in-person learning won't 'return to normal' 02/08/2021 11:47am • As school systems throughout the D.C. region prepare to increase the number of students taking in-person classes, realities of an ongoing pandemic suggest hopes of "things getting back to normal in classrooms" is unrealistic — at least for now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Maryland Gov. Larr Some Fairfax Co. teachers will remain virtual when students return to the classroom 02/05/2021 12:00pm • Thousands of Fairfax County, Virginia, public school students will be returning to classrooms next month but many of their teachers will remain at home and teach classrooms full of kids virtually. On Tuesday the school board voted unanimously to approve the latest draft plan for a return to in-sc Northam: Get Virginia students back into classrooms 02/05/2021 11:28am • Gov. Ralph Northam pushed for Virginia school systems to begin offering options for in-person learning by March 15 during a news conference Friday. "Children learn better in classrooms. And that's where they need to be," Northam said. "We can do this and we must do this." Northam cited data fr Fairfax County students plead for return to in-person learning 02/05/2021 08:24am • Students and their parents who want Fairfax County, Virginia, public schools to return to full-time in-person learning spoke out during a school board meeting Thursday. Some Fairfax County Public Schools students became emotional as they pleaded for a return to in-person learning five days per we Alexandria students to return to school soon; Arlington will announce dates Feb. 18 02/05/2021 08:07am • Alexandria City Public Schools is out with dates when students can return to in-person learning twice per week, as the superintendent of Arlington County Public Schools said he will specify return dates on Feb. 18. Citing metrics that show a slightly reduced risk of contracting COVID-19, the avai Montgomery County holds public hearing on removing police officers from schools 02/04/2021 10:56pm • More than two dozen people spoke both for and against a bill that would remove police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools. A virtual public hearing was held Thursday night in front of the Montgomery County Council. The bill would stop the police department from deploying 'You're going to be unstoppable': Md. school counselors provide support to students during pandemic 02/04/2021 08:30pm • National School Counselor Week may be coming to a close, but the work of one Montgomery County, Maryland, counselor to help students get set for their futures continues. Bethlehem Beru is the resource counselor at Briggs Chaney Middle School in Silver Spring and the leader of a team of counselors Va. Gov. Northam announcement due Friday: 'We want to extend our classrooms to this summer' 02/04/2021 11:41am • The specifics aren't clear yet, but Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he will make an announcement Friday, with the goal of helping students whose school years have been complicated by the coronavirus. "We want to extend our classrooms this summer, to allow our children to catch up, so that everyb Super Bowl commercials: Expect a different tone this year 02/04/2021 09:19am • ï»¿ A Maryland woman will be in the spotlight this Super Bowl Sunday. Baltimore's Jessica Long, one of America's most decorated Paralympian swimmers, is being spotlighted in a commercial for Toyota. Her commercial, which doesn't include a single car or truck, relates her adoption from Russia a Anne Arundel Co. schools set March for return to hybrid in-person learning 02/04/2021 09:06am • Public schools in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, will incrementally welcome students back to school buildings on a hybrid learning model from early to mid-March. Anne Arundel County Public Schools said Tuesday that elementary school students whose parents previously opted in to a hybrid learning Prince William Co. on track to get kids in classrooms within a month 02/04/2021 08:53am • Students in Prince William County, Virginia's second-largest school district, are on-track to return students to in-person learning in all grades, by March 3. Unlike most Northern Virginia counties that implemented 100% distance learning after a December 2020 jump in positive coronavirus cases, P