CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___

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.

The latest from Maya Lora

How 9/11 and a cruise to Bermuda come together in ‘All the World Can Hold’
Baltimore-based author Jung Yun will discuss “All The World Can Hold,” her third and most personal novel, Thursday at 6 p.m for The Banner Book Club.
Jung Yun is the Baltimore-based author of "All The World Can Hold."
Baltimore City Public Schools names Philadelphia leader as new CEO
Jermaine Dawson will replace Sonja Santelises, who has been in the job for over a decade.
Jermaine Dawson, the incoming CEO of Baltimore City schools.
Maryland parents of stillborn babies could soon get $1,000 tax credit
Parents have fought for years to get monetary relief from state legislators.
Jessica Brady Reader poses for a portrait in the front yard of her home in Kensington, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Reader holds flowers that remind her of daughter Francesca.
Hampden’s Castle fire destroyed a haven for new parents. What’s next for The Womb Room?
The popular spot for prenatal yoga, birth doulas and infant care classes is in limbo, operating out of a temporary space 3 miles away in Govans.
Mom Aja Wilkes takes a yoga class at The Womb Room with daughter Solana, who is 4 months old.
How this day care rebuilt trust after a shooting and abuse scandal
The new owner of Shanteari Young’s former child care center lets parents watch classroom livestreams.
Teachers Tanasia Johnson, right, and Aniyah Tittle lead arts and crafts time with the children at Legacy Child Development Center in Owings Mills.
Oldfields School nearly closed. A new leader will rebuild from just 34 students.
The girls boarding and day school enrolls just 34 students, down from about 100 in 2023.
Stephen "Brock" Dunn will take over as interim head of school at Oldfields this July, where enrollment has dropped to just 34 students, down from about 100 in the 2022-2023 school year.
These foster parents have taken in 15 kids. Their goal: Send them home.
The Baltimore couple is unusual in a state where half of families stop taking foster kids within the first year.
De’Jonnae Boyd Moreno sits with her daughter, Evie, whom she and husband José Moreno adopted after fostering her.
Anyone can get free child care in West Baltimore. Some moms found a village, too.
This University of Maryland, Baltimore, program fights the rising social isolation among parents.
New mother Brittany Brinkley feeds and plays with daughter Bobbee Battle, 10 months, at the Rise Early Learning and Family Support Center. The center is apart of the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work, provides free, high-quality early childhood education, family support services, workforce development, and parent education programs all under one roof.
Want to teach little kids in Montgomery County? You can earn a degree for free.
The school district wants to turn support staff into the fully certified teachers it needs.
Natalie Morataya will be one of the first Montgomery County paraeducators to become an early elementary teacher — for free.
Baltimore’s top educator wants to end the iPad kid epidemic
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.
When immigrant families can’t leave their homes, this reading expert comes to the door
Amid a federal immigration crackdown, scared families are avoiding public spaces and staying home. Norma Montesino is one of the few people they’ll let in.
Norma Montesino leads the East Baltimore branch of ParentChild+, an internationally renowned literacy program for low-income and marginalized families with small children.
The Baltimore Symphony is using Peppa Pig to capture its youngest audience ever
The Muddy Puddles Orchestra tailors its show for kids ages 18 months and older.
Peppa Pig: My First Concert is coming to Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore on April 13, 2026.
How Maryland schools will respond to rumored ICE ramp-ups
Rumors of an influx of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents coming to Maryland have put communities on edge.
Students walk through the hall inside Hampstead Hill Academy on 8/29/22. Monday was the first day back to school for Baltimore City students.
Iced sidewalks, no buses: How Maryland School for the Blind finally reopened
Reopening was complex for the Maryland School for the Blind in Northeast Baltimore, where over 200 students with visual disabilities, some of whom use wheelchairs or canes to get around, go to school.
To make the 96-acre campus safe, facilities staff at the Maryland School for the Blind had to clear thousands of feet of sidewalk, a four-day task that only got harder as fluffy snow quickly turned into sheets of ice.
Most Baltimore County teachers are ready to teach science of reading. What about your district?
The phonics-forward method backed by brain science is what education leaders hope will bring Maryland back to its heyday.
BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 5, 2024: School books at a classroom in KIPP Harmony Academy are seen on December 5, 2024.
This Maryland program opened nearly 300 day cares in 3 years
Maryland’s Growing Opportunities for Family Child Care program is expanding in-home day care, adding thousands of affordable child care slots statewide.
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026 —  Teacher Aurikshauna Ratliff, owner of The Start of Excellence Childcare, smiles as Sapphire Beatty, 2,  picks out the red heart during a lesson in shapes and colors.
After years of struggles, Baltimore’s only all-boys public school to close
The Baltimore City school board voted Wednesday to close its only all-boys public school, Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, while putting off decisions on two other proposed school closures.
The Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys met its demise at the end of a nearly five-hour public meeting on Monday.
This Christian school wants to catch neurodivergent students falling through the cracks
SOLL Academy aims to educate all kids in one place, regardless of their learning differences. It’ll be a financial headache.
Allison Schweigman, founder of Seeds of Love and Learning Academy, stands in front of the building that will house her school when it opens this year.
Everything you need to know about getting your child vaccinated in Maryland
Access and affordability are virtually unchanged.
Reva Bounan, RN administers a vaccine injection to Ryan Lewis (11) during a Vaccine Clinic offered at BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
Homeschooling has exploded in Maryland since the pandemic
A by-the-numbers look at the increase in Maryland homeschooling since COVID-19 that seems here to stay.
Megan Dombi-Leis, left, goes over math problems with her daughter Enzlie, 7, as her daughter Della, 11, works on her own school project at Kaleidoscope Workshop in Edgewater.
Load More Stories
Oh no!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.