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The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

Although Baltimore County Police have said the threats are unsubstantiated, their announcements of increased police presence and an unfinished investigation haven’t been much comfort.

Lichter succeeds Julie Henn as chair, while Harvey replaces Rod McMillion as vice chair. The two new leaders both had the backing of the teachers union in the Nov. 8 election.

Maryland students had mixed results on statewide, standardized tests given last spring.

School system officials in a memo attributed the withholding issues to an “inadvertent error” made by the vendor that processes payroll and other business services.

The board will elect a new chair, welcome five newly elected members and prepare to say goodbye to four appointees stepping down soon.

A cast member who got into an argument on an explosive recent episode is a Hopkins faculty member.

The publication of the agreement paves the way for Hopkins to being recruiting and training private police officers in the next six to 12 months.

The fair will help students and families make more informed decisions when choosing a middle and high school.

Towson University President Kim Schatzel is leaving the university for a new job as president of the University of Louisville.

At a time when Baltimore City's public schools are looking for teachers, UMBC has provided a small pipeline of graduates to fill needed positions.

A Banner reader says Maryland lawmakers can and must act to ensure accountability in child sexual abuse cases; another reader says conservative activists elected to Maryland school boards are interested in spreading their political agenda, and not in what’s best for schoolchildren.

Richard Vatz, a professor at TU for 41 years, says he tends to want to help conservative groups because there’s ‘so much anti-conservatism in higher education.’ But he said he told Turning Point members that their remarks were inappropriate and that he would quit as their advisor if they continued.

Teacher Kerry Graham remembers when a student who rarely spoke in class came to her one day with a surprise message.

The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners voted to close Steuart Hill Academic Academy in January, but parents were hoping their appeal to state officials would keep the doors open.

Baltimore County Public Schools should embrace new strategies for disciplining students because merely removing students from school does little to fix the problem of disruptive behavior, a law student and former county teacher says.

For Maryland’s American Indian population, Thanksgiving can be a complicated — and oftentimes painful — reminder of lost lives, land and culture.

School board candidates Maggie Litz Domanowski and Brenda Hatcher-Savoy cemented their wins after the Baltimore County Board of Elections finished counting mail-in and provisional ballots late Friday.

Students who apply to McDaniel College through the program will receive guaranteed admission and a scholarship.

The university plans to hire 100 officers, citing a 'sustained surge' in violence.