K-12 schools

Parents, schools and health care providers are vital in helping teens through today’s unprecedented mental health challenges, says Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi, president and chief executive officer of Sheppard Pratt.

As teacher Kerry Graham leaves her job, she pens a final thank you note to her students for the lessons they taught her.

An ordinary fight between two boys at Brooklyn Park Middle School metastasized and resulted in the death of Christopher Wright, who was killed while protecting his son from five students and adults who showed up outside their townhouse.

U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger wants Congress to approve a clean debt ceiling increase and he opposes Republican budget proposals that he says would cut funding for programs vital to Marylanders.

“That’s 19 students, 17 young men and two young women, and one who I would even call not really even within the range of manhood quite yet,” CEO Sonja Santelises said.

Meade Senior High School was listed for sale on Zillow for just over $42,000 in Anne Arundel County — a steal at about 12 cents per square foot. The listing is a senior prank that the school system is taking in good spirits.

Carmelo Anthony retires as one of the greatest scorers in NBA history, leaving a legacy of inspiring young men in Baltimore, where he grew up and began pursuing his dream on the city’s playgrounds, writer Alanah Nichole Davis says.

The promise the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling held for many in Baltimore and elsewhere stands in sharp contrast to enduring school segregation almost 70 years later, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

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.