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Maryland spends up to $1 billion on teacher professional development every year, but there is little to no data showing that teachers improve in classrooms from such programs, according to a recent report.
Public school teachers in Maryland must renew their teaching license every five years, which involves three years of annual satisfactory evaluations and a certain number of hours of state-approved professional development opportunities and courses at colleges and universities.
But the effectiveness of teacher recertification requirements is ambiguous, according to Abell Foundation’s “Reconsidering Teacher Recertification in Maryland” report. And because of how many public dollars are invested in teacher licensure and professional development, it is important to ensure that these efforts are meaningful, Mark Procopio,
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott vetoed a bill that would provide alternatives to traditional security deposits for tenants this week, potentially marking a swift turnaround for a proposal that the city council approved by a vote of 12-2 in April, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun.
The bill would have required some landlords to give tenants a choice to pay a security deposit in three monthly installments or opt for a security deposit “insurance” plan, in which they would pay nonrefundable monthly premiums to a bond company that would cover the upfront costs of damages but bill the tenant for them afterward, the report says. That could result in tenants paying more than the cost of a security deposit, and in the weeks since the bill’s passage, advocacy groups including the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Baltimore Teachers Union, CASA and Progressive Maryland, lobbied the mayor to veto the bill, according to the report.
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