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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

BOAST News

O'Malley backs tax credit to help private schools

By John Wagner, The Washington Post

Read the full story in The Washington Post. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) threw his support Wednesday behind a tax credit

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Archive

3/4/2010	O'Malley endorses tax credit for school donations Read the full story in the Capital News Service.
3/3/2010	Governor O’Malley supports BOAST measure Read the full story in The Catholic Review. One day before Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was to
3/3/2010	Group rallies for bill to help private education Read the full story on WBAL.com. Hundreds of students rallied in Annapolis in support of legislation to help curb the
3/3/2010	O'Malley backs tax credit to help private schools Read the full story in The Washington Post. Maryland
3/3/2010	Private school aid might get vote in House Read the full story in the MarylandReporter.com. A key House committee might finally vote on giving tax relief to businesses
3/2/2010	School closings add urgency Read the full story in The Baltimore Sun. Advocates of a business tax credit that
3/1/2010	Report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute shows that some public schools serve very few minority and low-income students. This new analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that more than 1.7 million American children attend "private public schools" -- public schools that serve virtually no poor students.
2/28/2010	Archdiocese to announce school closings Read the full story in The Baltimore Sun. Over the past decade, Principal
1/30/2010	Archdiocese of Washington to close or merge four Catholic schools Read the full story in The Washington Post. Two Washington area Catholic schools
12/14/2009	County Education Funding Need Quadruples Read the full story in The Capital. The minimum funding increase the
11/28/2009	At lunch or play, pupils race against the clock; Montgomery school construction can't keep pace with enrollment
10/10/2009	Advocates say BOAST needs a push Read the full story here. Passing BOAST is a no-brainer. That’s the response Katharine Knight
10/7/2009	Ten Maryland Schools Honored as 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan named 314 schools as 2009 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools, including
10/4/2009	Losing the Jacket and Tie For Jeans and a T-Shirt Read the full story here. At the end of August, Gabriel Liegey left his crisp
7/27/2009	Area schools get a lesson in addition -- and subtraction Read the full story here. School enrollment is up nationwide. When the school bell rings next month, some districts are bracing
7/17/2009	Should Public, private school buses be linked? Read the full story here. St. Mary's County will look at consolidating bus services that deliver
7/17/2009	Saving Catholic schools Read the full story here. The likely closure of Towson Catholic High School is
7/14/2009	Why Maryland needs BOAST now more than ever Read the full story here. Maryland legislators could have
7/14/2009	Passage of Indiana legislation gives push to Maryland BOAST Tax Credit Read the full story here. As Indiana became the seventh state to pass a scholarship tax
7/8/2009	Economy forces Towson Catholic to close Read the full story here. Faced with rapidly declining enrollment and mounting
7/3/2009	Indiana offers money to private school donors Read the full story here. Make a donation to a private school scholarship
7/2/2009	Tax credit similar to BOAST passed in Indiana A tax credit similar to the proposed BOAST Maryland Tax Credit, which will ultimately benefit students and teachers in Maryland’s public and nonpublic schools, was passed earlier this week by the Indiana
6/29/2009	Nurturing a Love of Math, Sciences Read the full story here. If only university systems could clone Christine Sweigart
6/22/2009	Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit in Jeopardy Read the full story here. When genetics expert Sam Rhine came to Allegheny County last November, about
6/21/2009	Struggling after school And summer programs Read the full story here. Afterschool and summer programs across the state of Maryland say they are being forced
5/30/2009	The Last Hope for Hungry Kids Read the full story here. The budding tennis players at an after-school program
5/24/2009	Nonprofit Invites Youngsters to Discover the Great Outdoors (AP) — How many hundreds of thousands of kids have grown up around Washington and never set foot in, on or even alongside the Potomac River? It's impossible to know, but the simple answer is: far too
5/19/2009	Save Our Schools Read the full story here. For the third time this school year we have had the frustrating
4/15/2009	As Session Closes, $2 Million Added for Textbooks/Technology Read the full story here. They didn’t get their much-sought business tax credit to help students
4/9/2009	Four Area Boys and Girls Clubs to Close Read the full story here. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington,
3/24/2009	BOAST Bill Makes Progress Read the full story here. While leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference are optimistic that
3/22/2009	A Win-Win Idea Read the full story here. The economic downturn squeezing public education funding
3/12/2009	Catholic School Students Lobby for Legislation Read the full story here. Students from St. Matthias Apostle School in
3/10/2009	Boys & Girls Club in Charles set to close Friday Read the full story here. The sharp downturn in the economy that has been strangling the life out
3/10/2009	Tax Credit Proposal Favored by Private Schools Has Others Fuming Read the full story here. Every school day Derek Mitchell