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Author of novel banned from Harford schools draws crowd in Bel Air
The author of the illustrated novel “Flamer” spoke to a crowd in Harford County on Tuesday after his book was banned by the county’s Board of Education earlier this year.
“Flamer,” a graphic novel by Mike Curato.
Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired
Somerset County’s school board accused its superintendent of insubordination. She said the board chair threatened her before she left town.
Two lengthy opinions from the state board of education shed light on the dysfunction in Somerset County schools.
Months after Lansdowne High student’s shooting death, 18-year-old charged with murder
Baltimore County Police charged an 18-year-old with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Lansdowne High School student earlier this year.
Lansdowne High School.
Redesign of high school magnet programs to get scrutinized by council members
Montgomery County Council members will pepper MCPS leaders with questions about a plan to divide high schools into six regions, each with a slate of parallel academic pathways.
Montgomery County Council members will question MCPS leaders about a plan to divide high schools into six regions.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore president’s work will be reviewed for plagiarism
Heidi Anderson is accused of lifting several paragraphs from a 1981 paper by Robert M. Caldwell without citations.
Dr. Heidi Anderson speaks as she is presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021.
Woodlawn school bus crash leaves 7 students hospitalized with minor injuries
Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a crash involving a school bus Monday morning in Woodlawn, the Baltimore County Fire Department said.
Baltimore County Public Schools is working with the Fire Department to transport uninjured students to school, officials said.
Ravens help bring new life to long-closed Hilton Rec Center
The Hilton Recreation Center is on to its next chapter.
The new indoor basketball gym at the Baltimore Ravens Boys & Girls Club at the Hilton Recreation Center in Baltimore.
5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer
In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.
A makeshift memorial of flowers, a teddy bear, a cross and a baseball glove hang on a utility line Friday at University Boulevard West and St. Paul Street. The intersection is where James Evert Anderson, 16, was killed on Sept. 21 in a pedestrian crash.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore president accused of plagiarism by former professor
Heidi Anderson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president, is accused of lifting multiple paragraphs verbatim from a scholarly article and improperly citing information in her 1986 doctoral dissertation.
Dr. Heidi Anderson speaks as she is presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021.
It’s payday. Baltimore County teachers are worried about their checks.
A bumpy transition to a new payroll system has Baltimore County Public Schools staff on edge.
Teacher pointing at paper on the floor with students.
Howard County school bus drivers could strike
Zūm School Bus Services drivers, who handle roughly a third of the Howard County Public School System’s routes, authorized a strike Thursday.
Zum, a California based tech company, will handle 230 of Howard County Public School's roughly 500 school bus routes for the next three years.
Howard County schools cancel vaccine clinics, leaving students to seek shots elsewhere
The Howard County Public School System canceled its free flu and COVID vaccine clinics due to a lack of grant funding.
A student receives an injection during a Vaccine Clinic offered at BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
‘Swatting’ and ‘hoax’ threats strike several Maryland schools this year
False claims of active shooters or violence are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know as Maryland schools are targeted.
Students walk around campus several weeks before classes begin at Morgan State University on August 5, 2025.
Tylenol causes autism? Hopkins scientists bristle at Trump’s unproven pronouncement
A Hopkins study not only seeks to uncover causes of autism, but what might better the lives of people who have it.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington. Trump said his administration was linking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism and urging pregnant women to largely avoid the medication.
Maryland names 7 Blue Ribbon schools after feds end national awards
Maryland had ended its program after the 2019-2020 school year but will now resurrect it.
Students at St Joseph School celebrated their Blue Ribbon win with cheers, signs and confetti on Sept. 23, 2024. The U.S. Department of Education ended the national program this year.
Towson, Morgan State universities both cleared after bomb threats
At least two local universities evacuated parts of their campus because of bomb threats Tuesday.
Towson University
Parents and teachers need state child care funding. So why is the money frozen?
The state projected getting back down to 40,000 child care scholarships by September. But the program is still thousands of vouchers over budget.
Students take advantage of the nice weather and play outside in the sandbox and on the playground
Somerset County school board retreats online after heated meetings
The board’s decision came after two meetings in which a parent was escorted out of the room after forcefully questioning the board and raising his voice.
A still from the livestream of the last in-person board meeting on August 19 as parent Joe Hylton speaks before the Somerset County school board.
5 key questions about the MCPS plan to change school boundaries and programs
Big changes are in store for Montgomery County’s public high schools — new boundaries and a very different approach to specialized programs.
The Montgomery County Public Schools headquarters in Rockville.
Howard County kids lose access to Dolly Parton’s free books program amid funding woes
Each year, the program gave free books to about 2,500 kids every month. It ends after October.
A collection of children’s books inside a classroom at the Dasher Green Center for the Community Action Council of Howard County, which houses the Dasher Green Head Start Center, in Columbia, Md. on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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