Once again from the Dundalk Eagle, we learn about some amazing new programs that will be available at Dundalk High School.

These jobs, security, air traffic, and others will provide our students with opportunities to get great paying jobs that offer long term careers.  My one hope for all of this is that Dundalk High School will be given a Magnet School designation.  Every other school in the community has the designation, from Patapsco (Arts), Sparrows Point (Environ. Science), Kenwood (Sports Medicine), Eastern (Engineering), and Chespeake (Communications).  I will be searching for the details from BCPS about the difference in funding streams from a regular "standard" high school compared to a magnet school.  I am sure that the magnet schools receive a greater amount of funding…but I am not 100% sure.  If you have details please send them in to the site and post them.

Anyway you look at it, this is huge and this is awesome.  Thank you citizens for doing what you had to do to get this!

DHS to offer homeland security, air traffic control courses

Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:18

Programs will be available only at Dundalk by Bill Gates     Dundalk High will not be getting any magnet programs. On the other hand, the school soon will be offering two programs that not only won’t be available at any other public school in Baltimore County but will be offered by few other schools in the entire country.     Dundalk received the go-ahead last month to begin planning the curriculum for courses in homeland security and air traffic ccontrol.     “The market for jobs in these two fields is just wide open,” Dundalk principal Tom Shouldice said. “They’re stressful, but well-paying. Our kids should be able to get these jobs.”     As yet, only one other high school in the country (in Florida) has an air traffic control program. Joppatowne High is the only other school in Maryland with a homeland security program.     The homeland security program will begin in the fall with a sophomore class called Foundations in Homeland Security.     “That class will give an overview of what homeland security is,” said Carol Leonard Reynolds, who will coordinate the homeland security and air traffic control programs.     Students will be able to select one of three pathways for their junior and senior years, Reynolds said: criminal justice, homeland security science and certification in global information systems, a computer-based program.