The $2.16 billion operating budget and $571 million capital spending plan got “yea” votes from two Republican council members who had never previously voted in favor of Pittman’s budgets.
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Bedell worked as assistant superintendent in charge of high schools for Baltimore County Public Schools before leaving for Kansas City Public Schools in 2016. He will start his new role Aug. 8.
The Anne Arundel County Public Schools Board of Education will announce within two weeks the person it has selected to serve as superintendent, who is responsible for leading thousands of staff members aimed at educating the county’s more than 83,000 students.
Despite rapid increases in COVID-19 infections, governments in the heavily-populated Mid-Atlantic region have largely refused to implement any measures to protect children in schools.