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K-12 schools

    Judge reinstates Baltimore County schools auditor who had questioned board spending practices
    Auditor Andrea Barr contended that the decision not to renew her contract followed threats by some school board members to bend to their agendas.
    6/16/22—Exterior of the Greenwood campus of the Baltimore County Board of Education.
    Maryland curbs use of seclusion, restraint for misbehaving students
    The long-standing practice of seclusion will be banned in Maryland's public schools when a new state law takes effect on July 1, but seclusion will still be allowed in private schools funded with public tax dollars.
    Every day Maryland schools lock up students for misbehaving; often in closet sized, padded rooms, monitored by an adult watching through a small window in the door or by video camera. This long standing practice of seclusion will be banned in the state’s public schools on July 1 when a new state law takes effect, but seclusion will still be allowed in private schools funded with public tax dollars.
    CollegeBound Foundation expanding completion program to get more Baltimore scholars through college
    The CollegeBound College Completion Program, which graduated its first cohort in 2021, is helping to shepherd an extraordinary number of students who attended Baltimore City schools through college.
    Kyra Davis, 21, is interviewed about her time at Goucher College on June 2 at the CollegeBound Foundation.
    Baltimore County superintendent’s future remains uncertain. And so does the board’s.
    The fate of Superintendent Darryl Williams remains a closely guarded secret among a divided school board a week after calls for dismissal.
    Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Darryl Williams sits inside the Baltimore County Council chambers in April 2022.
    Baltimore city residents are frustrated with the state of schools, poll finds
    About 57% of residents disapprove or strongly disapprove of the job CEO Sonja Santelises is doing.
    Lockers at a Baltimore City school.
    Sonja Santelises has a shot at making real progress in city schools. Will she stay long enough to make it happen?
    This summer Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises will become the longest serving school leader in the city since 1988. Five police chiefs and four mayors have come and gone since she began her job in July 2016. Now the biggest question is, will she stay long enough to turn the system around?
    Baltimore City School CEO Sonja Santelises talks to student during a school tour.
    Long hours, no respect: One teacher’s cry for help
    This frustration bordering on panic, or maybe dread — my reaction to not being heard — is how I’ve felt since the pandemic began. I’ve taught high school English in Baltimore City for over a decade; every year, it seems educators cry louder for help
    Kerry Graham
    Baltimore County school board under pressure to get rid of superintendent by next summer
    School board plans closed-door meeting about personnel issues, and Superintendent Darryl Williams is not invited
    Darryl L. Williams, Ed.D., Superintendent, Baltimore County Schools
    A teacher’s year of broken rhythms
    Frustrated educators still waiting for a “return to normalcy.”
    Nicole Veltre, biology teacher at Digital Harbor High School, talks about the most difficult year to be a teacher in the United States due mostly to the global pandemic that forced many teachers to suddenly and immediately abandon the classroom, and the second is the race protests and riots across the country.
    I teach English and I’m out of words
    Teacher Kerry Graham reflects on her own students’ vulnerability following the Texas school shooting.
    Kerry Graham, English teacher with Baltimore City Public Schools and a member of The Baltimore Banner's Creatives in Residence program. (Courtesy of Kerry Graham)
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