K-12 schools

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Benjamin Schmitt, president of the Howard County Education Association, says students with disabilities deserve fairness when it comes to educational funding priorities.

The number of teachers with a temporary license has skyrocketed in the last five years.

Baltimore students gave up their phones kicking and screaming, but now they report better grades and focus.

Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Friday that the school board’s $1.26 billion funding request is “unattainable and unaffordable.”

Maggie Domanowski is accused of using a “tone and manner that was perceived as uncivil and aggressive” during a Jan. 28 school board meeting.

The initial victory comes the same day the Department of Education said it would lay off more than 1,300 employees.

Maryland’s House of Delegates voted along party lines to tweak the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education plan.

Our Kids Read opened last month in the Eastpoint Mall.

The state could end up with fewer teachers in classrooms and university layoffs, the attorney general said.

Baltimore City Council members pressed officials in the school district and the Maryland Transit Administration to find solutions to improve mass transit students.

A Thursday hearing will be the first time public officials discuss transit’s impact on students since a Banner investigation found it’s nearly impossible for them to get to school on time every day.

The inclusion of additional athletic trainers was among nearly 20 budget amendments approved last week, putting the school system’s funding request $107.3 million above what the county is required to pay.

Legislation would require schools to use a national educator database to help weed out bad actors.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s proposal to revamp the state’s education-improvement plan was largely rejected by state lawmakers Friday.

The 300 drivers, trainers and bus attendants work for a contractor for the Howard County Public School System.

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier has said, “We just have to say no,” to the school system’s $2.98 million budget.

The strong opposition leaves little chance that Moore’s legislation — which would reduce the total increases in spending by $1.6 billion over four years — will remain unchanged before it gets a legislative vote.

Sister Patricia McCarron, the longtime head of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, will become superintendent of the Baltimore area’s Catholic schools system in August.