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My Turn: Baltimore County CARE Liaison Cortly Witherspoon

Meet Cortly Witherspoon, a community school liaison at Baltimore County’s Winfield Elementary School. He’s a longtime social and political activist and now, as a member of the Education Support Professionals of Baltimore County (ESPBC), a union activist. This year, he’s part of MSEA’s 2024-2025 Minority Leadership Training cohort, one of MSEA’s signature leadership development programs. […]
Educator Voice|Pedagogy|Professional Practice

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Breakthroughs: Maximizing Opportunities for My Students and My Career

Erica Richardson is a social science teacher at Joppatowne High School and the 2024 Harford County Teacher of the Year. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in secondary education from St. Thomas Aquinas College and is a board member of the Middle States Council for Social Studies. For the past 25 years, I have been […]
Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice|Union Updates

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AP Black Studies Classes Back in Harford County

Harford County made the news this summer when the board of education there denied making permanent an AP African American studies course after a successful 2023-24 pilot program in three of the county’s high schools. The controversial discussion item was removed from two board agendas ahead of the June 24 meeting and announcement, an indication […]
Educator Voice|Professional Practice

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Educators and the New Literacy Policy

Of major concern in the policy proposal was retention and its impact on equity, workload, and capacity. Retaining third grade students who do not read at grade level, which is one of the aspects of the policy, has the potential to exacerbate issues of workload and staffing, and retention frequently has long-term negative impacts on […]
Elections

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Election 2024: Your Vote, Your Voice!

When it’s election season, MSEA members always step up and do their civic duty—voting at rates above the general public and supporting pro-public education candidates at the top of the ticket, for school board, and for county-level seats. That’s what we do as educators—and it’s more important than ever given the stakes this year. With […]
Elections

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Alsobrooks v Hogan

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Elections|School Funding

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Project 2025 v Public Education

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Legal Questions|Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice

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A Word from Legal: Title IX

Title IX regulations, updated by the Department of Education on April 29, 2024, require public schools to adopt and publish procedures for the resolution of student complaints alleging any actions prohibited by Title IX by August 1, 2024. While various legal challenges have halted implementation in at least 21 states, it is still enforceable in […]
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