K-12 schools

The U.S. Education and Justice departments together determined Anne Arundel County’s school system violated federal student privacy law by withholding information about a student’s gender identity from the student’s parents.

Alexa Sciuto filed a defamation lawsuit in 2025 in Baltimore County Circuit Court against five Republican lawmakers, two leaders of Moms for Liberty, and Chaya Raichik, founder of Libs of TikTok.

Roughly 60% of the district’s portable classrooms are on elementary campuses.

Democrat Lisa Maisano and Republican Julie Walsh are pitching themselves as a bipartisan slate for Carroll County school board who can steer the conversation away from national politics and back to local issues.

The teenager was at Hammond High School when a school resource officer received a report that the suspect had a gun in his possession, police said.

Immigration enforcement is “changing childhood itself,” experts told Baltimore City Council at a three-hour hearing Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.

A conservative Anabaptist group runs one of the hottest preschools in Baltimore’s liberal Hampden neighborhood.

The lawsuit, filed last week, is America First Legal’s latest effort to bring conservative influence into public schools.

Montgomery County will consider closing campuses and changing attendance zones.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox ordered Adriana Gavilan Sanchez’s release from immigration custody.

Sonja Brookins Santelises wants to make classroom conversation civil again.

Community leaders will gather Thursday evening near a Gaithersburg bus stop where police fatally shot a man last weekend. They plan to talk with residents about strategies to stem persistent violence in the area.

COLUMN | The Somerset County proposal to limit young adult book titles to kids 18 and older will make children less empathetic and — let’s face it — stupider.

Dyann Mack, a lifelong Harford resident and 30-year veteran of the school system, is determined to put the focus back on what’s happening in the classroom.

A new report ranks Maryland’s schools as more racially and economically segregated than most in the nation.

An arrest on the Commodore John Rodgers campus shattered the sense of safety school staff spent years building.

Two parents, backed by a conservative nonprofit group, are suing Anne Arundel County Public Schools over the school system’s policies related to transgender children.

Classics like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Little Women’ might be off limits to most students under the proposed policy.

Since the pandemic, Maryland educators say they’ve seen more children starting school not fully potty-trained.