State grants aid Maryland cultural museums nationwide reach
The Maryland State Arts Council offers 80,000 in grants to about 200 cultural and historical museums from the Maryland Historical Society to a Rock Hall local history museum. Awards support conservation surveys research and management with a 20000 annual cap per institution.
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Maryland Historical Society
Rock Hall
Maryland State Arts Council
Arts Council
Alice Merrill
Maryland Historical and Cultural Museum Assistance Program
Merrill
Peale Museum
Nancy Brennan
Baltimore City Life Museums
Peale
State plants wildflowers along Maryland highways
Beds of red poppies pink cosmoses and yellow coreopsis brighten routes across Maryland the program expanding with a 45000 yearly budget. Bruce Knott notes perennials like evening primrose and daisy varieties thriving along I 95 Md 175 and Md 32 while 30 acres were seeded this spring and 16 more will be planted this fall.
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Baltimore
State Highway Department
Queen Anne’s
Bruce Knott
Mr. Knott
University of Maryland
New England
Capitol Beltway
MD. 175
MD. 32
Howard County
Federal agencies work to fix Chesapeake Bay pollution
EPA lists 311 federal facilities in the region with significant violations over the past year including 50 sites. Officials aim to bring facilities into technical compliance by year end, though full elimination of problems may take years. Issues span sewage plants to buried hazardous chemicals as EPA and Defense Department push for compliance.
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Chesapeake Bay
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Defense Department
Neil Swanson
Reading Called Lost Art SAT Verbal Scores Hit Decade Low
The College Board reported SAT verbal averages fell to 424 the lowest since 1980, in a three-year slide. Women’s math improved to a 16-year high, American Indians rose 13 points, and Black test-takers showed notable gains as the nation debates education progress and a looming test revision.
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New York
College Board
Niath
Donald M. Stewart
The
Haucanonal Testing Service
Princeton
N.J
Md grads take SATs varies by state in 1990
The College Board released average SAT scores by state for the Class of 1990. The data show higher scores where fewer graduates took the SAT, with state by state figures for verbal and math in 1990, the 1989 scores, and the percent taking the test.
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New York
College Board
Alabama
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