K-12 schools

Six students at the Maryland School for the Blind wanted to make a film about pizza. They ended up making one about themselves.

COLUMN | What if this isn’t about parents’ rights and school bureaucrats? What if the lawsuit and threats to cut off school funding over pronouns and names are about seizing control of schools from local communities? Parents should be asking a lot of tough questions.

Administrative errors in Baltimore’s tax sale process put a teacher’s rental property at risk. Now the city is moving to help reverse the foreclosure.

This year’s MCAP scores mostly sustain post-pandemic growth, though other districts have recovered faster.

The testimony comes one day after the U.S. Education and Justice departments alleged that Anne Arundel County’s school system violated federal student privacy law by withholding a student’s gender identity from their parents.

Statewide scores have hardly budged since last year.

Baltimore schools’ post-pandemic gains are some of the highest in the state in English.

Montgomery County students made modest gains in reading and math, though not all groups improved.

English proficiency on the MCAP stands at 46.1% in Baltimore County, while math proficiency is at 21.9% — both below statewide averages.

Here's how Howard County’s top 10 schools shook out on the annual state math and English exams.

Prince George’s County Public Schools’ standardized test scores crept up slightly in English and math, but disparities across race, disability and language persist.

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.

Maryland students will probably like their next standardized testing experience a little better. Why? It’s shorter.

The U.S. Education and Justice departments together determined Anne Arundel County’s school system violated federal student privacy law by withholding information about a student’s gender identity from the student’s parents.

Alexa Sciuto filed a defamation lawsuit in 2025 in Baltimore County Circuit Court against five Republican lawmakers, two leaders of Moms for Liberty, and Chaya Raichik, founder of Libs of TikTok.

Democrat Lisa Maisano and Republican Julie Walsh are pitching themselves as a bipartisan slate for Carroll County school board who can steer the conversation away from national politics and back to local issues.

Roughly 60% of the district’s portable classrooms are on elementary campuses.

The teenager was at Hammond High School when a school resource officer received a report that the suspect had a gun in his possession, police said.

Immigration enforcement is “changing childhood itself,” experts told Baltimore City Council at a three-hour hearing Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.