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K-12 schools

    Howard County students were mostly quiet about book bans — until now
    Moms for Liberty is targeting more than three dozen titles for removal from Howard County school libraries.
    Oakland Mills High School student McKenna Gran, 16, started a petition opposing Moms for Liberty’s efforts to get more than three dozen titles out of Howard County school libraries.
    Virginia educator selected to lead Montgomery County Public Schools
    The president of the Montgomery County school system announced Monday that it had selected Thomas W. Taylor, the superintendent of the Stafford County, Virginia, school system, as its new superintendent.
    Montgomery County Public Schools announced Thomas Taylor as the district's new superintendent on Monday, June 17, 2024.
    How Baltimore is getting vulnerable students back in school and across the stage
    Since the pandemic, Baltimore City schools have poured resources into getting kids to school every day and to graduation. And it’s working.
    Staff and students walk through the hallways of the Excel Academy at Francis M. Wood High School, where efforts to boost attendance have received mayoral recognition.
    The karate kids of Howard County: A dojo helps remedy the after-school care shortage
    With parents facing a dearth of reliable afterschool care, a dojo in Ellicott City provides a unique option
    Stanley Crump, owner of Okinawan Karate Dojo, stands for a portrait outside of his dojo on 6/13/24 in Ellicott City, MD.
    Maryland could do a better job teaching multilingual kids. This school found a solution.
    Kids learning English are Maryland schools’ fastest-growing group.
    Fritzie Bernardo instructs her third grade English language development class at Lamont Elementary School in Prince George’s County.
    Commentary: I needed to learn English, but my Spanish sustained me
    Morelys Urbano, a Morgan State University student and fellow who advocates for language justice, relates how her native language sustained her as she navigated the necessity of learning English.
    Morelys Urbano
    Baltimore City schools will keep its CEO — but not for long
    Just before the last day of school, Sonja Santelises and Baltimore's school board finally struck a deal for her to stay.
    The Baltimore City school board gave Sonja Santelises an unusually short contract.
    Howard County schools are in for more leadership changes
    The Howard County Public School System will reorganize six divisions.
    The exterior of the Howard County Department of Education in Howard County, Maryland on February 7, 2024.
    What to expect from Baltimore County’s only language immersion school
    The founders of Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School want kids to “feel like they are in a different world.”
    Lucy Moran, left, Bertrand Tchoumi and Henriette Sindjui, will open Baltimore County's only language immersion school, Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School.
    High school student charged after police say they found a gun on him on campus
    Police say the school resource officer at Franklin High School responded to a call about a suspicious person on campus at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday.
    6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
    School’s out for summer! Some parents might be more excited than the kids.
    I am exhausted to the fiber of my being as I literally count how many bags of snacks we have left in the house versus how many we need until the end of the school year.
    A Baltimore educator’s family tragedy refocused her teaching on mental health
    It’s difficult for teachers to balance catching students up academically and attending to their mental health. Kat Locke-Jones may have cracked the code.
    Kate Locke Jones, a seventh grade English teacher poses for a portrait inside of her classroom at Hampstead Hill Academy, May 22, 2024.
    The Baltimore County Council passed a bill to ease school overcrowding. Will it hold?
    The Baltimore County Council has passed a measure that would make it harder for developers to build new housing in communities with crowded schools. But county school officials want to have more input, and the county executive worries it may have a negative impact on the county’s moral and legal obligations to address attainable housing.
    Baltimore Count Public School buses sit in the Northwest bus lot in Milford Mill days before the first day of school.
    ACLU says a Howard County school is trying to silence students over Israel-Hamas war
    The letter, which focuses on River Hill High School, said Principal Robert Motley and Assistant Principal Allison Volinsky are violating district policy and the First Amendment rights of the students.
    The exterior of River Hill High School in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
    Montgomery Co. elementary principal charged with assault, accused of stomping on child’s foot
    An elementary school principal in Montgomery County is accused of stomping on a student’s foot and is facing a related second-degree assault charge, according to court records.
    An elementary school principal in Montgomery County is accused of stomping on a student’s foot and is facing a related second-degree assault charge, according to court records.
    Baltimore County passes measure to relieve school crowding
    The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.
    Busses parked outside of Hampton Elementary School during morning dropoff 3/19/2024. Timonium, MD
    Two more Maryland counties are cutting virtual learning programs
    Frederick County has eliminated part of its virtual learning program and Montgomery County is considering completely ending its virtual academy.
    Federal grand jury indicts ex-Gilman School teacher accused of sexual abuse on more charges
    Chris Bendann, 39, of Baltimore, worked at the independent, private all-boys school in Roland Park in Baltimore from 2007-2023. He has maintained his innocence.
    Chris Bendann, 39, of Baltimore, a former teacher at the Gilman School who’s accused of sexually abusing a student, leaves the Baltimore County Courts Building in Towson on July 18, 2023.
    Thirty words. Ninety seconds. One misspelled word.
    Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland by winning a lightning-round tiebreaker over a sixth-grader from Allen, Texas. Some questioned the bee’s decision to move so quickly to the spell-off.
    Twelve-year-old Bruhat Soma, of Tampa, Fla., wins the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Soma spelled 29 words correctly in a tiebreaker spell-off to win the competition.
    Doctors gave him 72 hours to live. Now he’s graduating high school.
    In August 2022, Alex Morales was riding his bike and was struck by a drunk driver. Despite sustaining a traumatic brain injury, Morales is graduating on time from Oakland Mills High School on May 31.
    Alex Morales, a graduating senior from Oakland Mills High School, stands outside the school campus on May 2 in Columbia.
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