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  "path": "/2026/05/27/youth-is-served-youth-charging-early-childhood-education-bills-among-those-signed-into-law/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T08:00:49.000Z",
  "site": "https://marylandmatters.org",
  "tags": [
    "Education",
    "Gov & Politics",
    "Justice",
    "Critchlow Adkins Children's Centers",
    "Del. J. Sandy Bartlett",
    "early childhood education",
    "Gov. Wes Moore",
    "House Speaker Joseline Pena-Melnyk",
    "Sen. William C. Smith Jr.",
    "Senate President Bill Ferguson",
    "youth auto charging"
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  "textContent": "It was a good day for young people in Annapolis Tuesday, when newly enacted laws made it harder to charge juveniles as adults, added child care scholarship funds and created a commission to study treatment of Black youth at a former reform school.",
  "title": "Youth is served: Youth charging, early childhood education bills among those signed into law"
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