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The University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, painted a bleak picture of the consequences in federal lawsuit filings.

Monday is the first day of school in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel and Howard counties, along with transition day in Montgomery County schools. Coppin State, Towson and UMBC students return to classes, too.

Superintendent Bill Heiser gave news media and county officials a rundown of teacher vacancies, completed school construction projects, school bus driver shortages and more on Monday morning.

Parents will be happy to know they shouldn’t have to rearrange their evenings to help their children with math homework.

If the proposed Head Start changes are approved, they could create additional financial strain on Montgomery County.

The $59 million Burtonsville Elementary building was years in the making.

Bill Heiser has promised to raise graduation rates and test scores and rebuild trust in Baltimore County schools, where repeated budget cuts have hurt morale.

The Montgomery County Public Schools system is operating with an estimated $3 billion deferred maintenance backlog, officials said.

COLUMN | Parents who have always donated school supplies to their kids’ schools and others’ are now stretched so thin that they can’t. And that’s tragic.

Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said.

The years-old policy became the focus of intense scrutiny last month after parents of an area high school student filed a federal lawsuit alleging teachers and staff lied about and hid their child’s gender transition.

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret will remain in immigration detention, where he has been held for four weeks, a judge has ruled.

For the first time in 10 years, all schools start before Labor Day, ending a tradition former Gov. Larry Hogan began.

Nora Demleitner, who led Annapolis-based St. John’s College for three years, will become executive director of the Ben and Myrna Cardin Center for Civic Engagement and Discourse at Towson University.

Hundreds of times a year, Maryland students are removed from school using a legal maneuver known as an emergency petition.

Maryland’s former governor and Washington College will open a civics center with help from political allies and alumni.

Naomi Boldon’s organization, Embold, is driven by her belief that Black girls deserve to see their hair celebrated.

A teen pleaded guilty to gun possession and was sentenced to 98 days in jail in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of Blake High School in April.

The Banner compiled a list of undergraduate move-in dates at Maryland colleges so you can know when — and where — to steer clear of the congestion.

The screen time audit comes as parents across the country are revolting over how much of class is spent on computers.