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K-12 schools

    List: School closings and delays for Friday
    Here are the Maryland K-12 schools, colleges and universities that will be closed, delayed or switching to virtual learning due to the weather.
    Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 β€” Baltimore County School busses sit in the county lot on Providence Road on day when schools are closed because of snow.
    Montgomery County Public Schools will be closed Friday
    Students will miss an entire week of school because of icy conditions.
    Children sled down a hill on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, during a snowstorm in Silver Spring, Md. at Pinecrest Park.
    Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle students moved after mold discovered in walls
    Nearly 600 South Baltimore students will be bused eight miles to the former Thurgood Marshall Middle School building in East Baltimore.
    Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School students have been moved after mold was discovered in the walls of the school.
    List: School closings and delays for Thursday
    As the weather remain frigid, here are the K-12 schools, colleges and universities that remain closed, delayed or have switched to virtual learning.
    The weather will remain frigid the rest of this week, and some roads are still icy.
    Maryland sees drop in Hispanic graduations as immigration raids ramp up
    A precipitous drop in the number of Hispanic students and foreign students learning English has fueled a 1 percentage point decline in the state’s graduation rate for 2025.
    A student walks past lockers in the hallway outside Damien Ford’s Baltimore School for The Arts classroom on Dec. 21, 2022. Ford teaches an African American Literature class where shows his students comparisons between Lauryn Hill lyrics and the work of Zora Neal Hurston.
    Montgomery County public schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday
    MCPS announced Tuesday that schools will be closed Wednesday and Thursday. School officials will announce on Thursday whether they will close on Friday.
    Cynthia Ferguson, left, and Joni Kayne sled down a hill on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, during a snowstorm  in Silver Spring, Md. at Pinecrest Park.
    List: School closings and delays for Wednesday
    Here’s what we know about Maryland school and college closures as cold weather and ice persist.
    MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025 β€” Ava Funk, 5, boards her school bus to Davidsonville Elementary School in Riva, MD.
    List: Winter storm school closings and delays for Tuesday
    As crews clear snow, several school systems across Maryland will be closed or delayed on Tuesday.
    Several school systems across Maryland will be closed or delayed on Tuesday.
    After the snow comes the next challenge for schools β€” extreme cold
    As Maryland schools are clearing out from the winter snow storm, officials are trying to prepare for the next weather event: extreme cold.
    Lockers in a hallway inside of Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Md. on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
    Watch: Superintendent’s snow day rap gets clicks and a few clucks
    Somewhere at the intersection of creative and cringe lies Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rap video announcing an MCPS snow day.
    MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor becomes Super Snowy/Doctor T when he decides to close schools.
    List: School snow closings and delays in Maryland
    Here is a list of K-12 schools closing or delaying start times Monday, Jan. 25.
    The weather has closed many area schools.
    MCPS: No school Monday and Tuesday
    MCPS schools, already slated to close on Monday, will close on Tuesday also due to the snowstorm.
    About two dozen kids and their parents found top-notch sledding in Pinecrest Park in the Woodmoor neighborhood of Silver Spring Sunday afternoon.
    In Howard County, predicting school snow days is a sport
    Howard schools chief Bill Barnes acknowledged last month that it can seem like there’s no rhyme or reason to snow days.
    A child sleds down a hill at Lake Elkhorn during a snow day on January 6th, 2025 in Columbia, MD.
    Could this weekend’s snowstorm extend the school year in Maryland?
    Here’s what happens if Central Maryland schools use all their snow days.
    A school bus drives through the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore as the first snow of the season falls in the city on Friday.
    Ex-St. John’s Parish Day School employee sentenced for possession of child sexual abuse materials
    Ellicott City resident Jackie Wang, 18, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count in October after police found an external hard drive hidden under his mattress that contained child sexual abuse material.
    Exterior of the Circuit Court for Howard County is seen on January 30, 2024.
    A months-old charter school faces closure. Did it stand a chance?
    Some people will undoubtedly view the upcoming vote as a statement on whether charter schools are welcome in Maryland’s largest school district.
    MECCA Business Learning Institute parents talk with school board member Rita Montoya about their desire to keep the charter school open on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026.
    Should 16-year-olds vote in school board races? Some Howard County teens say yes.
    Howard County teens are lobbying lawmakers to lower the voting age in Board of Election races to 16 and to expand the voting rights of the board’s student member.
    Illuminate Maryland student leader Rishit Guttam holds up a piece of paper to signal a candidate’s response time is running out during the Howard County Executive Youth Forum at the Elkridge Branch Library earlier this month.
    Reward grows for information on Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian graffiti at Whitman High
    The Victims’ Rights Foundation donated $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. The Muslim Public Affairs Council contributed another $3,000.
    A neighbor driving by photographed anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian graffiti being cleaned off a wall at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda on Friday.
    Maryland is rethinking how it pays for special education β€” and it could cost a lot more
    What is the true cost of teaching children with disabilities in Maryland? And how should that money be distributed?
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    Western High rediscovers 180 years of hidden treasures
    Over its many years of existence, Western High School has aggregated a room of treasures tied to the school’s history.
    A collection of items located in the archives room at Western High, in Baltimore, Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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