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Students ask Howard County to fund pilot providing free menstrual products in public facilities

3231250 · May 8, 2025
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A group of high school students asked the council to add funding for a menstrual products pilot that would place free products in libraries, community centers and athletic complexes, and presented cost estimates they calculated for a three-month pilot and annual continuation.

A Mount Hebron High School student urged the Howard County Council to add a menstrual-products pilot program to the FY2026 budget, saying students from several county high schools had previously asked for the same program at an earlier budget hearing.

Isha Ande, a junior at Mount Hebron High School, testified that students from Mount Hebron, Howard, Marriotts Ridge, Long Reach and…

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