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Maya Lora

Maya

Maya Lora is an education reporter who covers Baltimore City schools, school choice and early childhood education. She previously covered diversity, equity and inclusion for The Baltimore Sun. Originally from Miami, she moved to Baltimore from the Lakeland Ledger, where she spent two years covering growth and development and Polk County government. While getting her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Washington and Lee University, she interned at The Hill in Washington, D.C., and the Miami Herald.

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These blind student filmmakers make magic on both sides of the camera
Six students at the Maryland School for the Blind wanted to make a film about pizza. They ended up making one about themselves.
Keith Lamar Jackson, 21, said filmmaking was new to him before this experience.
Baltimore students’ English test scores are rising fast, even as they struggle in math
Baltimore schools’ post-pandemic gains are some of the highest in the state in English.
Maryland students still struggle with high school-level math: See your school’s scores
Maryland students continue to struggle with high school-level math, with only 21.3% passing the Algebra I MCAP exam and disparities across districts and demographic groups.
DECEMBER 11, 2025 - Students in Yongsul Cho's Algebra I class at Greenbelt Middle School complete function problems during their daily class.
Baltimore’s first Latina council member calls for more protection from ICE near schools
Immigration enforcement is “changing childhood itself,” experts told Baltimore City Council at a three-hour hearing Thursday.
Baltimore City Councilwoman Odette Ramos wants the city’s Safe Passage initiative to expand to more schools.
One of Hampden’s hottest preschools is run by Mennonites
A conservative Anabaptist group runs one of the hottest preschools in Baltimore’s liberal Hampden neighborhood.
Harriet Unger, 2, crawls through a cubby at Hampden Christian School.
Judge orders release of mother taken into ICE custody on Baltimore school campus
U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox ordered Adriana Gavilan Sanchez’s release from immigration custody.
Federal immigration agents arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez as he drops his daughter off at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in June as his partner, Adriana Gavilan Sanchez, the girl’s mother, looks on. (Still from bystander video)
Former Baltimore schools CEO snags top job at DC’s Council on Foreign Relations
Sonja Brookins Santelises wants to make classroom conversation civil again.
Former Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Brookins Santelises will be vice president, senior fellow and director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass Center for Education.
A Baltimore school told its immigrant families they were safe. Then ICE came to campus.
An arrest on the Commodore John Rodgers campus shattered the sense of safety school staff spent years building.
Principal Marc Martin greets arriving teachers outside of the front office inside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School.
More Maryland kids are coming to school in pull-ups. Teachers are told to help.
Since the pandemic, Maryland educators say they’ve seen more children starting school not fully potty-trained.
BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 5, 2024: Kindergarten students pay attention to their teacher during an English Language Arts class in KIPP Harmony Academy on December 5, 2024.
How on-site daycare helps close the graduation gap for Baltimore’s teen moms
Half of teen moms don’t graduate high school. Excel Academy is different.
Rylee Pinkney Barnwell with her son, Ramire Manns, during the Itsy Bitsy Sneaker Ball at the Poppleton Recreation Center in Baltimore.
Incumbent Ashley Esposito leads Baltimore City school board race
Challengers Kevin W. Parson and Jamar Day ended Tuesday night neck-and-neck for the fourth spot on November’s ballot.
Incumbent Ashley “Ash” Esposito took the lead in the race for two seats on the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.
These Baltimore parents’ lives revolved around their kids. ICE detained them at school drop-off.
The chaotic way two Baltimore parents were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside their daughter’s school stands in stark contrast to what their neighbors describe as their normally quiet lives.
Baltimore Police officers outside Commodore John Rodgers School, which is temporarily holding classes in Dundalk, this month.
Nonprofit raises over $450K for Baltimore students in honor of Sonja Santelises
The money will support at least eight Baltimore high schoolers each year.
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises will leave her post this month after 10 years. A fund named after her will continue to boost education for the city's high schoolers.
Baltimore City Public Schools settles yearslong dispute with charter schools
Baltimore City Public Schools agreed to pay out an additional $5.2 million to 30 charter schools.
The Baltimore City school board voted Tuesday to end years of fighting over how it funds its charter schools.
Why Maryland law can’t always keep ICE off school grounds
After two parents were detained outside an East Baltimore elementary/middle school, local leaders are searching for ways to prevent it from happening again.
Protesters begin to march around the perimeter of Patterson Park as part of an anti-ICE rally in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, June 12, 2026. The group of community members and parents gathered a day after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a student’s parents on Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School’s temporary campus in East Baltimore.
Community rallies behind parents detained by ICE outside children’s school in Baltimore
Parents and community members rallied Friday evening after ICE detained parents outside a Baltimore public school this week.
Parents and community members rally at Patterson Park on Friday evening after ICE detained parents outside a school Thursday.
ICE vehicles hit Baltimore father’s car as he took his children to school, attorney says
ICE says Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and his wife, who were detained while dropping off their children at a Baltimore school, face federal charges.
Police vehicles were parked outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School after ICE agents detained two people during school drop-off on Thursday.
ICE agents detain parents dropping off kids outside Baltimore school
ICE agents detained two adults on public school property Thursday in a chaotic scene caught on video.
Baltimore Police vehicles are parked outside The Commodore John Rodgers School, which is temporarily holding classes in Dundalk, after a report that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers arrested a person during school drop-offs on Thursday morning.
Former Baltimore teacher of the year confronted by Chris Hansen in YouTube sting
Former Baltimore teacher of the year Dennis Jutras told Chris Hansen he was trying to warn a teen in a Harford County sting operation targeting adults seeking sex with minors.
Former Baltimore teacher of the year Dennis Jutras told Chris Hansen he was trying to warn a teen in a Harford County sting operation targeting adults seeking sex with minors.
What happens when your child doesn’t get into pre-K at your neighborhood school?
Baltimore City Public Schools prioritizes the neediest kids first. Here’s what else to know.
Baltimore City has one of the most expansive public pre-K programs in the state, but not all children can attend the schools they live closest to.
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