BALTIMORE — Maryland’s school board took emergency action Tuesday to mandate that school leaders are informed when a student has committed a serious crime.
The new regulation follows WJZ’s reporting on a 17-year-old Howard High student now charged with murder, and the superintendent’s complaints that he was left in the dark about the teenager’s violent past when he changed school systems .
Before, if a student committed a violent crime and transferred schools, it was optional for the old school system to notify the new one…