K-12 schools

    Baltimore County gets a new charter school — a rarity in suburban Maryland
    The language-immersion school would join just one other charter school in the district.
    Baltimore County’s school board will consider two charter school applications, one of which was recommended for approval by the school system.
    Howard County Executive unveils $2.4 billion operating budget request
    Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled $2.4 billion operating budget request, including $1.14 billion for the Howard County Public School System.
    The exterior of the George Howard Building as seen on Jan. 25, 2024.
    Loch Raven High School adds officers after fight videos posted online
    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.
    School officials have proposed to replace Loch Raven High School, which was built in 1972, with a new building that could seat several hundred more students.
    Baltimore school board and schools CEO Sonja Santelises silent on contract talks
    Sonja Santelises, Baltimore City Public Schools’ longest-serving CEO in recent history, appears to be negotiating another four-year contract.
    Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, speaks at the Maryland Impact Conference in October 2023.
    Baltimore County principal’s racist comments faked by AI, experts say
    Audio purporting to be Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert was almost certainly faked using artificial intelligence.
    Photo collage shows Pikesville High School sign with pixellated audio waves in the background.
    Three Calvert County students charged with hate crime violations
    Three Calvert County middle school students were charged as juveniles with harassment and violations of Maryland’s hate crimes statutes.
    The case is being forwarded to the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services for further action.
    How a culture war canceled a 25-year-old LGBTQ+ workshop for independent schools
    “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.
    Saint Paul’s School in Baltimore County on March 22, 2024.
    Howard County schools could find a new superintendent by June
    Among the candidates will be Acting Superintendent Bill Barnes.
    The exterior of the Howard County Department of Education in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
    Overcrowded Baltimore County schools will finally get relief. How long will it last?
    The school system’s largest redistricting process has come to a close. Not everyone is confident the relief will be permanent.
    Busses parked outside of Hampton Elementary School during morning dropoff 3/19/2024. Timonium, MD
    She dropped a loaded gun at school. A judge said jail time would be a ‘miscarriage of justice.’
    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.
    Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former teacher’s assistant at KIPP Harmony Academy, pleaded guilty on March 6 in Baltimore Circuit Court to carrying a loaded handgun. Circuit Judge John Addison Howard then struck the guilty finding and placed her on three years’ unsupervised probation. “It would appear to the court that Miss Minor has suffered in substantial ways well beyond what most people who appear before me have experienced in terms of negative impact on their lives,” Howard said.
    Baltimore principals are being threatened, punched and stalked — by parents
    “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.
    From left, Tammatha Woodhouse, Principal of Renaissance Academy, and Jacque Hayden, Instructional Leadership Executive Director at Baltimore City Public Schools, stand in the hallway at Renaissance Academy on Friday, March 8, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
    Shootings among high school teens in Baltimore finally decreasing
    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.
    There has been a rise in gunshot violence with youth in Baltimore.
    Students sold chocolate to raise money for school. A Baltimore County man stole $29,000 from them.
    James Michael Harris, 46, stole $29,000 tied to the chocolate sale organized by the parent teacher student association for Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, Baltimore County.
    Exterior of Stemmers Run Middle School sign in 2022.
    Baltimore City schools are constantly criticized. But here’s where they’re doing well
    It’s a bright spot for the Baltimore City school system, which often trails the rest of the state on test scores.
    Darice Cates, a kindergarten teacher at Montebello Elementary/Middle School, teaches a reading class on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Schools throughout the state are beginning to shift toward using a phonics style of instruction for reading, which is also known as “the science of reading.”
    Maryland schools are changing the way they teach reading. One district is lagging.
    The superintendent defended a controversial curriculum that some say is not teaching kids how to read properly.
    Schools throughout the state are shifting toward the science of reading, a form of literacy instruction with an emphasis on phonics.
    Remember Baltimore City Schools’ grade-changing scandal? That seems to be over
    An outside audit of 18 million grades showed no evidence of widespread grade changing last school year.
    A locker inside of Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
    Baltimore student robbed, sexually assaulted while walking to school, police say
    The attack happened about a quarter of a mile from the school.
    A Baltimore Police car and crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    Commentary: Maryland’s Blueprint left out free meals for students
    Maryland must make free meals available to all its public school students to promote good health, academic achievement and educational equity, two faculty members at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.
    Susan Gross and Erin Hager are faculty members in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    Howard School Board adopts $1.5 billion budget; now it goes to the county
    After multiple budget proposals, the Howard County Board of Education approved a $1.5 billion operating budget Thursday evening.
    The exterior of the Howard County Department of Education in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
    ‘Like a bad dream’: Howard County school board struggles to adopt a budget
    Howard County school board members voted on several budget proposals at a work session Tuesday, but couldn’t agree. They’ll try again Thursday.
    The exterior of the Howard County Department of Education in Howard County on Feb. 7, 2024.
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