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Teenagers shouldn’t need to bury one another. Yet when they do, they handle each other with such tender care.

Student loans are a tax on community progress and not about systemic racism and hate.

Nearly two dozen officers each earned more than $100,000 in hourly pay and overtime combined from October 2020-October 2021 by staffing Orioles and Ravens games and working at city pools and after-school events.

The smiling faces of students, teachers and staff reflected the joy of being back to school, with fewer of the masks, protocols and fears that marked the first two years of the pandemic.

Days before Monday’s classroom return, parents said pickup times that the system sent are scheduled after, or close to, the times that school starts. They are also still haunted by last year’s issues that resulted in bus driver no-shows or late drop-offs.

Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.

Maryland’s student school board members have become increasingly vocal about the limits on their voting authority, lobbying for more voting rights.

Teaching is an exhausting honor. Summers off ensure I can do it over and over again.

Only a third of Maryland's fifth and eighth graders scored proficient on the state's new science test, which are the first test results since 2019.

Parents often welcome the start of public school because, unlike summer camp and childcare, they don't have to pay for it. But don't celebrate just yet.

The University of Maryland and other Big Ten universities will share profits from what is believed to be the most lucrative media rights deal ever struck by a college sports conference.

Baltimore County Public School students will return to the classroom in the coming weeks with fewer COVID-19 restrictions on the books but other school districts are keeping mask requirements.

The teacher shortage and students’ experiences from the past couple years leave parents worried about the coming school year and questioning if their children’s needs will be met.

Baltimore County Public Schools lost over 1,000 educators this school year, and the system has been unable to fill many of these positions.

The money would cover raises for just one year, and the school system would need to scrounge up millions more within its existing budget to sustain the higher pay in subsequent years without added cost to taxpayers.

The term “book desert” describes a geographic area in which print books and other reading materials are hard to obtain. They are usually located in areas of high poverty and income inequality.

The city encourages residents seeking relief from extreme heat to visit their local library branch — a particularly vital service as high temperatures reached the mid-90s this week. But the closures of six branches means that is not possible at more than a quarter of the library system’s 22 branches.

Sometimes, life hurts, whether or not the bell is about to ring.

Eight candidates ran for two open positions on what will be a 12-member city school board, and four have advanced: Ashley Esposito, April Christina Curley, Kwame Kenyatta-Bey and Salimah Jasani.

It’s still unclear whether the Baltimore County Board of Education is allowed to stick to a voting rule that calls for seven yea votes to approve an agenda item. Things would have been different if they hadn’t.