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Severna Park VoicE SERVING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1981 VOTED THE 2019 SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MARYLAND FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS Of THE YEAR SEVERNA PARK, MD JU AN ARY 15, 2020 A1 The Park Loses Two Community Icons AACPS Budget Proposal Focuses On New Nancy Brown Mary Carter Teachers, Pay Raises n his $1.36 billion operating budget Iproposal for Fiscal Year 2021, presented to the Board of Educa- tion on December 18, Superintendent George Arlotto in- cluded pay raises for employees and 195 classroom teaching positions to address enrollment in- creases and to reduce class sizes. More than 91% of AACPS Superintendent the new positions in George Arlotto Arlotto’s recommen- dation are for employees the social and emotional swim teacher who devoted nearly 70 years By Haley Weisgerber who will have daily contact needs of students. of her life to the sport, Nancy Brown passed with students. The recom- “The singular school coun- A away on January 1 after an eight-year battle everna Park is mourning the loss of longtime mendation also contains selor at Oak Hill Elemen- with cancer. She was 83. dance teacher and mentor Mary Carter, who 20 teaching assistants tary School in Severna Park Brown was a Pasadena resident, but she had a Spassed away on December 30. and permanent substitute currently has a caseload of profound impact on swimmers from Severna Park Born in 1931, Carter began private dance les- positions, 11.2 cultural arts more than 700 students, and statewide. She taught the sport to children sons at the age of 4 and was asked to teach at age teaching positions, and two far exceeding the American on Baltimore area summer swim teams, as well as 11. She dedicated her afternoons and weekends elementary reading/lan- School Counselor Associa- adults from 18 to over 90 when she founded the to teaching throughout high school and middle guage arts teachers. tion guidelines recommend- Maryland Masters program in 1974. school. In 1962, her husband’s work brought her to Dana Schallheim, who ing a ratio of one school “I just love seeing them get excited about swim- Severna Park and the rest, as they say, is history. represents District 5 on the counselor for every 250 ming and teaching them how to swim correctly,” The first Carter School of Dance opened with 60 Board of Education, said students,” Schallheim said. Brown said in a 2015 interview with the Severna students at the old Carrollton Manor Clubhouse. the 195 positions and any “Adding a school counselor Park Voice. “It’s thrilling, really, to see someone For 43 years, Carter was sponsored by the Young possible additions by the won’t achieve recommended change their strokes to something beautiful, be- Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) and Board are critical to keeping levels; it would, however, cause swimming is beautiful when it’s done right.” taught classes to over 800 students in Severna Anne Arundel “above the be a game changer for both Her love of swimming began as a child when she Park, Arnold, Pasadena, Odenton and Davidson- water line.” the current school counselor spent every summer at her grandmother’s house ville. In 2007, she sold the school but continued “Large class sizes and and every student she serves on the Magothy River, where she would swim all to operate it under her own name and creative too few student support at Oak Hill. Although final day, earning her the nickname “water rat.” Her direction. staff are problems created staffing decisions won’t be strong competitive spirit emerged as a member When the Severna Park Community Center by years, decades even, of made until the budget pro- of the Friends School Swim Team in Baltimore, purchased the school from the new owners in chronically underfunding cess is complete in June, I which she captained in 1953 and 1954. Her math 2013, the name changed to The Dance Center of our schools coupled with am optimistic that this year teacher and coach, Larry Peacock, encouraged her Severna Park, but Carter was asked to stay on as ever-increasing enrollment,” Oak Hill will finally receive to pursue a life of fitness through swimming. the creative director. Schallheim said. “Unlike the second school counselor Brown did not compete again until forming Though Carter’s studio endured many changes, a television sitcom that they desperately need.” Maryland Masters, which she led at the Catons- her passion for teaching never wavered. With over resolves problems immedi- The budget proposal also ville YMCA with a » Continued on A8 50 years of experi- » Continued on A8 ately, this system-wide chal- contains funding for 73.3 lenge will take many years special and alternative edu- and both determination cation positions, 10 English and advocacy from both the Language Acquisition teach- superintendent and county ers, five bilingual teaching government.” assistants, and two bilingual “A Seismic Shift In Both Chambers” Fifty-seven positions will facilitators. go to staff the new Crofton “When I think about the High School, which will obligation that we, as a — Breaking Down The 2020 Session open in September 2020 for school system, have to the freshmen and sophomores. nearly 85,000 students we Education, Vaping, And Sports Betting Are Among Agenda Items More positions will be al- serve every day, three words located as the school adds come to mind: opportunity, By Zach Sparks nall — a Democrat who EDUCATION significant expansion of a grade in each of the next intentionality and impact,” [email protected] represents Severna Park, Maryland is long over- full-day preschool, teacher two years. Arlotto told the Board in his Arnold and other areas due to update its spending raises, an internationally AACPS is educating ap- budget address. “It is only or the Maryland in District 33 — called it formulas. The Kirwan Com- benchmarked curriculum proximately 1,700 more through the creation of op- General Assembly, a “seismic shift for both mission was tasked with that enables most students students this year than it portunities, carried out with Fit’s a new dawn. It’s chambers,” while fellow studying the best school to achieve “college- and did just a year ago, the great- intentionality, that we can a new day. District 33 Delegate Sid systems in the world and career-ready” status, and est year-to-year increase in have the positive impacts on Maryland’s longest- Saab, a Republican, said he recommending changes several other initiatives. about 30 years. children that they deserve serving House of Delegates expects the new leaders to to put Maryland on a Now that the findings Arlotto’s recommendation and that our parents and speaker, Mike Busch, died share the same progressive path to similar prestige. are out, Maryland will have also funds nine additional community expect.” last April. Mike Miller message championed by After roughly two years to foot the bill, which has school counselors, two more Elementary schools spent more than three their predecessors. of research, the commis- been estimated at an ad- school psychologists, and a in the four clusters still decades as Senate presi- While their impact re- sion has recommended » Continued on A9 social worker to help meet » Continued on A7 dent before stepping down mains to be seen, one thing before this session. is certain: Maryland is set When the 441st session to debate important issues got underway on Janu- with longstanding implica- ary 7, the House had new tions. Education reform, The State Of Anne Arundel County leadership with Baltimore sports betting, e-cigarettes County Democrat Adri- and Baltimore City crime When County Executive that might not be the Body Cameras enne Jones, and the Senate are some of the thousands Steuart Pittman held his last tax hike. When he announces his welcomed Baltimore City of issues that will be ad- State of the County address Fiscal Year 2021 budget Democrat Bill Ferguson as dressed during the 90- in December, he outlined recommendation this May, its new president. day session. several key initiatives. Had we been allowed Pittman will include fund- Delegate Heather Bag- Here are some takeaways to tax progressively like ing for body-worn cameras Anne Arundel paired with comments the state and the feds for police officers. County Executive from Pittman. do, that figure would “I have thought long and Steuart Pittman hard about the stress these Taxes have been higher. Stay Staffing For Teachers Inside tuned on that front, officers are under and also Last year’s budget raised as we work to shift the about how to build the And Public Safety Community .....................A1-A12 Sports ................................B1-B5 income and property taxes burden away from our community trust that is so Pittman touted the ad- Politics & Opinion .......A13-A14 School & Youth .................B6-B9 to fund education, public lowest-paid residents.