Baltimore City scores dropped dramatically, but eighth graders did not lose as much ground during the pandemic on either math or reading tests as students across the state did.

University of Baltimore president says campus police arrested an individual on a handgun charge, and there was not an ”ongoing threat” to the university community.

The school board is now all appointed, but city voters next month will get their first chance to elect school board members.

The Baltimore School for the Arts is trying to identify and discipline the person who is scrawling graffiti defined as hate speech on the boys bathroom walls.

Berol Dewdney, a nine-year veteran teacher at The Commodore John Rodgers School in East Baltimore, was chosen for the award from a field of seven finalists and will go on to compete for national Teacher of the Year honors.

Howard County police found no evidence of danger to students at Howard County's River Hill High School after a threat was called in shortly before 2 p.m.

Clauser, a 1960 Poly grad, would spend time in his father’s lab at Johns Hopkins.

Students are now being excluded from schools for failure to get childhood vaccinations, even though free vaccine appointments are hard to find for uninsured families.

Baltimore City desperately needs teachers, but the hiring process is frustrating to prospective educators, some of whom say they are leaving the city for the county.

A wide majority of Maryland residents say public schools should teach about racism in our institutions, according to Goucher College poll.

“These children are often abused or neglected and this is how the state is choosing to raise them,” one attorney said.

The name of the student-athlete as well as the circumstances surrounding the death remain unknown at this time.

A Fund for Educational Excellence survey of more than 400 teachers shows about half of Baltimore City school teachers are satisfied with their jobs and are motivated to stay because of the obligation they feel for their students. On the other hand, nearly a quarter said they weren't sure they would return after this school year, and they cited paperwork and student behavior as two reasons.

The victim was identified Saturday as 17-year-old Jeremiah Brogden, a Mervo student and athlete. Police said a 17-year-old has been formally charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bail.

Nearly two dozen officers each earned more than $100,000 in hourly pay and overtime combined from October 2020-October 2021 by staffing Orioles and Ravens games and working at city pools and after-school events.

The smiling faces of students, teachers and staff reflected the joy of being back to school, with fewer of the masks, protocols and fears that marked the first two years of the pandemic.

Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.

Maryland’s student school board members have become increasingly vocal about the limits on their voting authority, lobbying for more voting rights.

Only a third of Maryland's fifth and eighth graders scored proficient on the state's new science test, which are the first test results since 2019.

The longer kids stay in hospitals, physicians and administrators say, the more that their mental health deteriorates, and the more that limited and costly emergency-room resources are shifted away from other patients with critical needs.