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Police say the school resource officer at Franklin High School responded to a call about a suspicious person on campus at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday.

I am exhausted to the fiber of my being as I literally count how many bags of snacks we have left in the house versus how many we need until the end of the school year.

It’s difficult for teachers to balance catching students up academically and attending to their mental health. Kat Locke-Jones may have cracked the code.

Despite mischaracterizations about the encampment at Johns Hopkins University protesting the war in Gaza, what actually took place was peaceful and constructive, Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says.

The Baltimore County Council has passed a measure that would make it harder for developers to build new housing in communities with crowded schools. But county school officials want to have more input, and the county executive worries it may have a negative impact on the county’s moral and legal obligations to address attainable housing.

The letter, which focuses on River Hill High School, said Principal Robert Motley and Assistant Principal Allison Volinsky are violating district policy and the First Amendment rights of the students.

An elementary school principal in Montgomery County is accused of stomping on a student’s foot and is facing a related second-degree assault charge, according to court records.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

About 375 graduate students will soon take classes at the Baltimore City campus, instead.

Frederick County has eliminated part of its virtual learning program and Montgomery County is considering completely ending its virtual academy.

The Maryland Institute College of Art announced they’re permanently hiring Cecilia McCormick to lead the historic Baltimore school as its next president.

Chris Bendann, 39, of Baltimore, worked at the independent, private all-boys school in Roland Park in Baltimore from 2007-2023. He has maintained his innocence.

Goucher Prison Education System, or GPEP, allows inmates to study and earn credits towards a degree while in prison. Students take about eight to 10 years to graduate because the majority are working full-time while serving their sentences.

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland by winning a lightning-round tiebreaker over a sixth-grader from Allen, Texas. Some questioned the bee’s decision to move so quickly to the spell-off.

The Department of Defense awarded a $500 million contract with the University of Maryland’s national security research facility, the largest research deal the university has received.

In August 2022, Alex Morales was riding his bike and was struck by a drunk driver. Despite sustaining a traumatic brain injury, Morales is graduating on time from Oakland Mills High School on May 31.

Morgan State University was awarded a three-year, $1.05 million grant this month from Ripple, a San Francisco-based blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions company.

After an onslaught of support for Baltimore City College, the city school board approved a plan to allow students to move to the University of Baltimore for three years during the renovation of the high school’s century-old building.

The historic cornices, vent covers, trims and other ornate fixtures they made in class will go on renovated Baltimore homes in Black neighborhoods.

Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.