Parents in a Maryland county are pushing the local school board to close schools on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. If the board agrees to the request, which could be heard at a Nov. 10 board meeting, Carroll County would become the seventh Maryland county to close schools for the High Holidays.
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