K-12 schools

Baltimore County Police took a student into custody Friday after a report of an armed individual sent Kenwood High School into a brief lockdown.

Poor conditions at Baltimore City Public Schools reflect a lack of care and concern for the students who attend those schools, students interviewed by Johns Hopkins University researchers say.

The five Dunbar High School students who suddenly became ill on Monday had ingested marijuana, according to Baltimore City Public Schools.

Two of the three students taken to a hospital had been released by Monday evening, school officials said. Two other students had been taken home by their parents.

Correspondence obtained by The Baltimore Banner sheds new light on the missteps that left thousands of students without a ride the first week of school.

Schools in Howard and Montgomery counties are not doing enough to ensure that Palestinian and Muslim students are not intimidated or silenced as tensions heighten during the Middle East crisis, parents of those students say.

A former teacher in Washington, D.C. accused of sexually assaulting a student nearly a decade ago was arrested earlier this week at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Superintendent Myriam Rogers said the new school will serve as a leading example for state environmental efforts, by producing and saving as much — or more — energy than it uses each year.

It’s been years since someone has been shot inside a Baltimore County school building, but threats of danger and a heightened sense of fear on and around campus have persisted.

Howard County’s school board will have to immediately select an interim superintendent.

A group of parents in Howard County are objecting to the Board of Education’s new student transportation policy, saying it is not safe or equitable.

The evaluations will determine whether children are being taught to read in a way that’s backed by research.

The school board voted 5-3 on Wednesday night to approve a plan for new school boundaries. It will result in a change of schools for approximately 6,400 students at some point in the educational process.

Stretches of Orleans Street block pedestrian access and are a threat to neighborhood children, Fatima Wilkerson, a Southeast Baltimore resident and community activist, says.

The Anne Arundel County Board of Education will vote on a redistricting plan for the northern half of the county on Wednesday, wrapping up the first half of a two-part process.

Two high school students were robbed in separate incidents as they walked home from school earlier this week, Howard County Police said.

The millions planned for Harborplace redevelopment will do nothing to address Baltimore’s greatest needs, says Krystal Gonzalez, whose daughter was shot and killed at a Baltimore-area block party.

Two students and a teacher were injured in a fight involving a knife at the Academy for College and Career Exploration Thursday morning.

Journalist Susan McInerney examines her decision to remain committed to her Catholic faith despite being devastated by revelations of sexual misconduct within the church as an institution.

Employees of Zūm, the company that assumed half of Howard County’s school bus routes, are seeking union representation.