CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___
Maryland’s higher education secretary to be replaced
Sanjay Rai, The secretary of the Maryland Higher Education Commission will “conclude his tenure” leading the state agency this week, the governor’s office announced Tuesday afternoon.
Sanjay K. Rai
Baltimore’s mayor and state senators could soon wield unrivaled power over city schools
Maryland’s Senate advanced a bill despite near-unanimous opposition from the community.
The Baltimore City Public Schools Administrative Headquarters at 200 E North Avenue in Baltimore, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
Maryland kids won’t have school in late June after all
Maryland State Board of Education gave some school systems a reprieve after snow days caused chaos for their calendars.
The state school board instructed school districts to plan better for snow days in future years.
Prince George’s County officials consider renaming Cesar Chavez school amid abuse allegations
Buildings and schools named in his honor — including the César Chávez Dual Spanish Immersion in Chillum — are considering changes.
The César Chávez Dual Spanish Immersion elementary school at 6609 Riggs Road in Hyattsville.
Ray Lewis and Baltimore County schools launch mental health screenings
After his son’s overdose death, former Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis started a mental health foundation to bring mental health screenings to Baltimore County schools at no cost.
Former Raven Ray Lewis speaks to Baltimore County students during the Mind Over Matters youth mental health fair at MedStar Franklin Square Hospital on Wednesday.
Maryland’s reading comeback may hinge on $10.9M for teacher coaches
State Superintendent of Schools Carey Wright led a similar turnaround in Mississippi with literacy coaches.
Ecaterina Bittner, left, literacy coach at Armistead Gardens Elementary/Middle School, goes over student scores with Darlene Green, a literacy paraeducator for the first grade.
Morgan State wrestling is ‘a lighthouse’ for Black wrestlers. They hope others will follow.
On Thursday, Yannis Charles and Eugene Harney will make history as the first NCAA qualifiers in Morgan State’s Division I era, after the program had been on a hiatus for over two decades.
Eugene Harney, second from right, spars with fellow student Aaron Turner as during wrestling practice at Hill Field House on Morgan State University’s campus in Baltimore, Md., on Monday, March 16, 2026.
11 students evaluated after pepper spray discharged again on Baltimore County school bus
For the second time in a week, pepper spray was discharged on a Baltimore County school bus, prompting 11 students to be evaluated by emergency responders Wednesday afternoon.
yellow school buses
Anyone can get free child care in West Baltimore. Some moms found a village, too.
This University of Maryland, Baltimore, program fights the rising social isolation among parents.
New mother Brittany Brinkley feeds and plays with daughter Bobbee Battle, 10 months, at the Rise Early Learning and Family Support Center. The center is apart of the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work, provides free, high-quality early childhood education, family support services, workforce development, and parent education programs all under one roof.
‘Save Wootton’ families intensify their fight to keep their school
Rockville families are ramping up their fight to keep Thomas S. Wootton High School in their community ahead of a consequential vote next week.
A “Save Wootton Cluster” sign encouraging people to vote no on Option H is seen outside Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, on Monday, March 2, 2026.
A gentle poet, Eric Hrabowski, son of former UMBC president, dies at 50
The son of former UMBC president, Eric Hrabowski, went into cardiac arrest at home.
Eric Coleman Hrabowski in 2018.
Missing Baltimore boy Tristan King was found. What happens now?
Tristan is now in a specialized foster home, his grandmother said.
Tristan King was taken to a Baltimore hospital for an evaluation and has since been sent to what’s known as a treatment foster home in Prince George’s County, according to his grandmother.
Marylanders are missing payments on student loans, credit cards and other debt
The average Maryland resident’s debts are far higher than the national average — likely stemming from higher home prices, more expensive tuition, tariffs pushing up car prices, and greater reliance on credit cards.
Former Gilman School teacher charged with 1970s child sex abuse
An 81-year-old Connecticut pastor has been indicted on charges in Maryland that he sexually abused a child at the Gilman School in the 1970s.
Gilman School.
List: Schools to close early Monday due to threat of severe storms
Several school systems across Maryland are closing early on Monday due to the threat of severe weather.
Strong to severe storms are forecast for Monday.
Baltimore County could lose a charter school over a paperwork dispute
Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School's building plans were put on hold.
Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School was approved by the Baltimore County school board back in 2024 but has been struggling to get off the ground ever since. They have finally found a home at 7941 Corporate Drive in Nottingham.
Streeter: As a public-school parent, I thought kids had too much time off. Was I wrong?
It seems, as a parent, that Baltimore City Public School kids have too much time off. Some educators tried to set me straight.
Children sled down the hill at Wyman Park Dell on the morning after the first lasting snowfall of the winter, in Baltimore, MD on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Some Baltimore County students skip class to protest Trump amid school warnings
Thirty schools in five Maryland districts signed up to protest the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration. However, some school administrators warned against it, threatening disciplinary action if students skipped class.
Students participate in a walkout at Eastern Technical High School in Essex to protest the Trump administration and ICE on Friday.
Finding Tristan King top priority as officials pledge accountability
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore called it “tragic.” Mayor Brandon Scott said the situation has him “pissed.” Baltimore Schools CEO Sonja Santelises is “heartbroken” because of the Tristan King story.
Baltimore County students plan more walkouts. Schools say there will be consequences.
The demonstrations, planned for Friday at 11 a.m., mark the second time in two months that students across Baltimore County organized school-day protests they say are within their First Amendment rights.
Towson High School students Sam LaBuff, 17, left, and Ben Kasofsky, 17, are organizing the intra-school school walk out efforts on Friday.
Load More Stories
Oh no!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.