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Howard County Public Schools has joined a local and national and national movement to crack down on students’ phone use in classrooms.

The Howard County Board of Education met publicly for the first time since a 17-year-old student at Howard High School was charged with the murder of a 26-year-old man.

Partisan politics are creeping into Maryland school board races.

“I am tired of hiding,” said the woman, who testified against Chuck Yocum in court 30 years ago.

Five seats are up for grabs. Here’s where the candidates stand on issues like cellphones and building new schools.

Five of the races are head-to-head matchups against candidates with visions for the school system that can differ dramatically.

The city's school board voted 7-3 on Tuesday to extend the contract of CEO Sonja Santelises through June 2026. It was set to expire June 30, 2025.

The state’s hotly debated literacy policy calls for holding struggling readers back, with some exceptions.

The new rule comes a week after a Howard High School student with a prior criminal record was charged with first-degree murder.

Four candidates are running for two open seats on the Carroll County school board.

Deep within Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 925-page roadmap for the next Republican president, its authors say they want the service academies scrubbed of anything and anyone deemed insufficiently pure of thought.

The bacteria infecting children right now, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, typically triggers a spike in pneumonia cases in children every 3-7 years. However, like so many other things, the COVID pandemic disrupted the cycle.

A group of Morgan choir singers performed with Stevie Wonder at CFG Bank Arena earlier this week. The whole plan came together in just days.

Howard County School Superintendent Bill Barnes said the school district did not know until a bail hearing what the extent of the teenager’s offenses were.

Howard County Schools’ superintendent reassured the school community that safety and finding answers are his first priorities after the arrest of a Howard High School student in the shooting death of a Baltimore man.

Teachers are suddenly without the extra income they’ve come to rely on. Their employers are scrambling to cover the difference, with tuition hikes on the table.

Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.

Chuck Yocum and Erica McFarland appeared at a forum for the Anne Arundel County school board race, but the subject of his past was not up for debate.

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Charles “Chuck” Yocum is running against Erica McFarland in District 3, which includes Pasadena and Gibson Island.