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Norwood Elementary School

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

School Administration Defends Eastwood Facility Closure Process

Parents of students at Eastwood Elementary School, which faces the closure of its building, allege that the school system is acting unlawfully.

The Baltimore County Public Schools administration is refuting allegations from Eastwood Elementary School parents that it acted improperly in an effort to consolidate three Dundalk schools. The proposed merger between Eastwood, Holabird Middle School and Norwood Elementary School would result in the closure of Eastwood. "I feel like I was left out of the process," said Dan Ricci, an Eastwood parent, at a December Board of Education meeting. "I don't know if there were laws broken...certainly something unethical and unprofessional must have happened." Superintendent Dallas Dance recommended to the board at a Jan. 22 meeting that the three schools should operate as one kindergarten through eighth STEM magnet program at the Norwood and …

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Eastwood Parents Say They Feel 'Betrayed' By School System, School Reorganization Could Lead to New Police Precinct, Dance Recommends Eastwood Elementary Closure, and 1 more ›

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Jean Suda

1:05 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013

dfshds Stop leaving ads on a public comment site. I will report this to the Md. State Attorney General!   more ›

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Eastwood Parents Say They Feel 'Betrayed' By School System

Parents from the Dundalk elementary school, which is slated for a merger with two other area schools, complained about communications from the school system.

Parents of students at Eastwood Elementary Magnet School in Dundalk packed a Tuesday night Board of Education meeting to say they felt duped by the school system. During a Dec. 10 meeting at Holabird Middle School, school officials broke the news to Dundalk families that they intend to merge Eastwood, Holabird and Norwood Elementary Schools. The process includes shutting down the Eastwood facility, although the school system denies this means the end of the school. The closure of the Eastwood facility is part of a larger plan by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to sell property to construct new county buildings. The Eastwood property may be used for a new police precinct. "We feel betrayed," Eric Williams, an Eastwood parent, said to the …

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Parents Upset With Proposed 'Merger' of Three Schools (in Dundalk Patch), School Reorganization Could Lead to New Police Precinct, Holabird Middle Student Charged with Bringing Starter Pistol to School (in Dundalk Patch), and 2 more ›

Rich Foot

5:59 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012

With all of Mr, Burgundy's vast knowledge, perhaps he can share with us his "definition" of a school, since the legal one does not seem to fit the "plan" as well as originally expected.   more ›

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