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Howard County school board members voted on several budget proposals at a work session Tuesday, but couldn’t agree. They’ll try again Thursday.

Baltimore’s young people older than 16 often find a lack of educational and other resources aimed at helping them transition to adulthood, Julia Baez, the CEO of Baltimore’s Promise, says.

The school system has approved the first of two redistricting processes, relocating about 430 students.

The University of Maryland at College Park has suspended Greek life social activities involving alcohol amid allegations of hazing. Some national fraternity and sorority organizations think the college went too far.

The plea represents the first time John Vigna, who taught at Cloverly Elementary School for over two decades, has admitted guilt. For years, he denied accusations against him.

Taura Musgrove has tapped into her film school training, Hollywood connections, and work at Pixar to bring the public a series of avatars of civil rights figures, starting with Lillie May Carroll Jackson.

The $1.13 billion budget released by Acting Superintendent Bill Barnes in January called for eliminating roughly 350 positions across the district. But when school board members gathered for their final budget work session on Feb. 29, they reduced that potential figure to about 180 positions.

The University of Maryland, College Park, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the leadership of fraternity and sorority organizations on campus and began an investigation into “activities that have threatened the safety and well-being of members of the University community.”

The project will transform the 24,000-square-foot station into six squash courts that will host tournament play, dedicated workspace for students and room to expand.

An introductory Q&A with 10 of the 11 candidates who have filed to run for the Howard County Board of Education.

The life of abolitionist, clergyman and historian James W.C. Pennington, the first Black person to study at Yale, began in enslavement in Maryland.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday to uphold how the student member of the school board is selected.

Two Marines were charged by the University of Maryland Police Department in a hate bias incident at a dorm.

Glitches in a new system designed to make school choice run more smoothly in Baltimore City backfired for 200 students.

The school board approved the funding plan after an uneasy budget season.

“The worst case scenario that I have in my head is a member of the Hopkins police force using violence to adjudicate an issue with somebody either in this community or in the surrounding ones,” Councilwoman Odette Ramos said.

The conservative parents’ group Moms for Liberty was met by a flood of protesters at a Columbia library meeting room Monday.

The 1856 Project has released a report that shows the slave economy was deeply entrenched in the origins of Maryland Agricultural College, which eventually became the University of Maryland College Park.

The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future is doing what it was designed to do: redistribute money to the students who have the greatest needs.

The early start times now mandated for Baltimore public school students can be a factor in poor performance and lead to detrimental health outcomes, say two Loyola college students who experienced early start times and long trips to school as Baltimore public school students.