MSDE: 2023 MCAP results showing improvement

BALTIMORE, MD—Student proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) in School Year 2022-2023 are at their highest in nearly a decade with the largest single-year gain in grades 3-8 over the same time period. Statewide results (PDF) of the latest Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) assessments show notable improvements in literacy and mathematics, with literacy results surpassing pre-pandemic performance. Student […]

BCPS resource teacher from Perry Hall named one of four Md. finalists for Presidential Award in math, science teaching

Gary Werner, a resource teacher in the Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Science PreK-12 and a Perry Hall resident, has been named one of only four Maryland finalists for a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. He also was a state finalist in 2016. The national awards, created in 1983 to recognize exemplary instruction in mathematics […]