K-12 schools

Robert Lookingbill, 71, faces two felony sex abuse charges and two misdemeanor charges related to a March 1 incident in which he allegedly inappropriately touched a middle school student on the school bus he was driving.

Robert Lookingbill, 71, is also a town commissioner and faces two felony counts.

Kerry Graham argues that restricting books limits our access to think for ourselves.

The teenager faces 10 years in prison if convicted.

Carroll County commissioners plan to withhold some additional funding to the public library because staff supported the Freedom to Read Act, they said in budget work sessions this month.

A Montgomery County high school student has been charged with plotting a school shooting.

Fewer than half of city graduates go to college, but the Ravens, the team’s owner and M&T Bank want to change that.

The language-immersion school would join just one other charter school in the district.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled $2.4 billion operating budget request, including $1.14 billion for the Howard County Public School System.

In a letter sent to parents, the school says the latest fight among several students happened in the main office shortly after the third period.

Sonja Santelises, Baltimore City Public Schools’ longest-serving CEO in recent history, appears to be negotiating another four-year contract.

Audio purporting to be Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert was almost certainly faked using artificial intelligence.

Three Calvert County middle school students were charged as juveniles with harassment and violations of Maryland’s hate crimes statutes.

“What happened this year ... frankly it’s never happened before in 25 years,” said Peter Baily, executive director of the Association of Independent Maryland & D.C. Schools.

Among the candidates will be Acting Superintendent Bill Barnes.

The school system’s largest redistricting process has come to a close. Not everyone is confident the relief will be permanent.

Baltimore Circuit Judge John Addison Howard said it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to impose a harsh sentence for Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former educator who accidentally dropped her bag containing a loaded handgun at KIPP Harmony Academy in West Baltimore on Dec. 21, 2023.

“I have never seen it this bad,” one principal said about the rising number of parents showing up at school ready to fight on behalf of their children.

While shootings victimizing teens between ages 13 and 18 remain above pre-pandemic levels, they have fallen sharply this year compared to the same time period in 2023, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of police data.