House Republicans Announce Plan to Protect Schoolchildren from Juvenile Sex Offenders
Annapolis – Following disturbing media reports of a convicted juvenile sex offender attending a high school in Baltimore City, House Republicans today announced their efforts to change state law to protect school children.
According to media reports, a 15-year-old juvenile who pleaded guilty to second-degree rape in Harford County was not incarcerated by the Department of Juvenile Services, who, amazingly, recommended probation and counseling. The juvenile was ordered to have no unsupervised contact with children under the age of 15 and the court also required school attendance or participation in a GED program.
The Harford County incident occurred in 2023 and the victim was three years old.
The juvenile sex offender was also charged in September in Baltimore County for a separate incident that occurred in 2022 when the offender was 13. The victim in that incident was two years old.
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A task forced on university and college price transparency Wednesday announced that more than 360 higher education institutions have committed to transparency and clarity on financial aid and student costs.
Hundreds of colleges are joining together to commit to standardizing their financial aid offers in an effort to boost transparency and allow students and parents to better understand the cost of college. The effort, led by the College Cost Transparency Initiative (CCT), brought together more than 360 higher education institutions to follow “principles and standards”…
The way financial aid offers are currently communicated has long been scrutinized as confusing and unclear to students and parents, making it difficult for families to compare offers between schools.