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In 1872, the Maryland General Assembly appropriated state money to open schools for children of color. The county established a segregated school system. [9] In 1892, the county opened its first high school, Rockville High School, which graduated its first class of 12 seniors graduated in 1897. [10] (In 1927, Rockville Colored High School would ...
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County [7] (UMBC) is a public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County.It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, [8] 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, and 29 graduate certificate programs) and the first university research park in Maryland. [3]
Prince George's County (often shortened to PG County or PG) [2] [3] is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 967,201, [5] making it the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind neighboring Montgomery County.
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. [9] Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland .
The high school was designed by DLR Group and features a small learning community curriculum model. The school's namesake, longtime (57-year) Phoenix Union educator Betty Harriet Fairfax, died in November 2010 at the age of 92. [2] It was the first school in the district to be named after an employee.
In July 2021, the Virginia State Board of Community Colleges changed names for local institutions named after people who owned slaves or advocated racist policies such as school segregation. [2] The board allowed the college to change its name to from Lord Fairfax Community College to Laurel Ridge Community College.
Flint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK–12.The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from Washington, D.C.
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century.