K-12 schools

Maryland’s state school board will decide in the coming months whether to give Mohammed Choudhury a new, four-year contract as superintendent when his ends on June 30, 2024.

A reader asked The Baltimore Banner to investigative what techniques schools are using to diffuse violence.

Myriam Yarbrough, the next Baltimore County Schools superintendent, said she believes in the system’s potential.

Following months of confusion about the school’s fate, Baltimore County’s school board approved Golden Ring Middle School’s closure Tuesday night.

Yarbrough currently serves as the deputy superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools and was the only finalist who works in the school system.

“There is no safe place.” The prison death of notorious child rapist John Merzbacher, 81, brings small comfort to survivors of his abuse, who are still traumatized by the acts that went on in his classroom at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s.

The board is expected to pick a new leader for Baltimore County Public Schools as soon as Tuesday.

Gov. Wes Moore and Paul Monteiro, the newly appointed secretary of service and civic innovation, cite examples of how service to one another can improve the lives of Marylanders.

The Baltimore County school board has narrowed the superintendent search to four finalists.

Shiria Anderson, who worked for the system between August 2021 and early December, outlined in court documents what she claims to be retaliation by the superintendent over decisions Anderson made in the course of her job.

Maryland students should graduate with knowledge about handling their personal finances, Julie Weaver, executive director of the Maryland Council on Economic Education, says.

After complaints by Republican legislators that the state education department was hiding failing test score data, Maryland's inspector general has concluded the state is following federal privacy laws and guidance.

Maryland can do more to support English learners and boost dual-language education, say representatives of an organization advocating for immigrant students and their teachers.

At Jemicy School, engineering and building vehicles for Baltimore’s annual tradition is part of the curriculum.

A judge upheld a previous order to redact the name of the accuser, who was a teenage student at the Gilman School at the time.

The Maryland inspector general found that Baltimore City Public Schools paid as much as $631,000 over three years to a cab company for rides to school that students may never have taken.

The governor’s office still hasn’t said why the final seat on the board hasn’t been filled.

Victims of alleged sexual abuse by clergy and others in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are finally being heard, says Gemma Hoskins, an alumna of Archbishop Keough High School who was featured in “The Keepers.”

Book-banning and other censorship efforts were a threat to journalistic freedom 100 years ago, and they still are today, DeWayne Wickham, The Banner’s public editor, says.

Lawmakers say yes. Education officials say they’re protecting student privacy.