Several Frederick County education and safety officials met with parents at Urbana Middle School (UMS) on Jan. 18 to discuss improving transportation safety measures for UMS students and parents. The meeting was held due to much community discussion and following an accident outside UMS in December, when Urbana’s Christopher Pope was seriously injured while...
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Travis Kraft is a math specialist at Urbana High School (UHS). Among other things, Kraft teaches an intense 18-week algebra class that gives students credit for algebra one. But 26-year-old Kraft didn’t set out to teach math because it came naturally. Instead, he decided to take up studying math during his years at Pennsylvania...
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On Jan. 12, Thomas Johnson High School’s auditorium overflowed with parents and students attending the 22nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Students from Frederick County elementary, middle, and high schools were presented with MLK Jr. awards for written expression, art and character. Superintendent Theresa Alban presented the awards to their recipients, and Linganore...
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Urbana High School senior Nathan Hefner launched a small software business, Deft Technology, this past summer with the help of friends at UHS. Hefner was profiled in the January issue of The Town Courier in a feature titled, “High Schoolers Launch Deft Technology.” Since the publication date, there have been some changes within Deft...
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On the evening of the Jan. 11, just before the Board of Education meeting, Frederick County Public School (FCPS) lawyer Jamie Cannon privately informed Tom Neumark, president of the board for the Frederick Classical Charter School, that the FCPS BOE does not support a longer charter term for the school, according to Sue Middleton....
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Maryland Education Ranked No. 1 According to an independent national report released on Jan. 12, Maryland public education was ranked number one in the nation. This is the fourth consecutive year that Maryland has received this ranking. Education Week, the nations leading education newspaper, looked at data in six critical categories throughout the past...
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Since mid-November, new safety precautions have been taken outside Urbana Middle School (UMS). The impetus for these changes was a Nov. 18 accident in which Urbana resident Chris Pope was struck by a car while attempting to cross state Route 80 at Pontius Court to pick up his daughter from school. In response, a...
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Nathan Hefner is a senior at Urbana High School (UHS) — but most high-school seniors can’t say they are the CEO of a company. Hefner can. In mid-December, Hefner launched the first program by Deft Technology, his small software business based out of his home in Urbana. Deft Technology was casually launched in late...
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More than 100 Frederick area parents attended the Board of Education (BOE) meeting on the evening of Dec. 14, including 25 Urbana-area parents who spoke out in regards to the option of relocating the magnet program. A BOE report detailed that one of the BOE’s options to solve the overcrowding at Urbana-area schools was...
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In mid October, 542 Urbana High School (UHS) students took the Preliminary SAT test (PSAT). Nine of those students placed in the 99th percentile for their grade level — six juniors and three sophomores. Madelyne Xiao, a 15-year-old sophomore at UHS, was one of the three sophomores. It was her first time taking the...
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