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The University System of Maryland — which oversees the state’s public colleges — will not allow special events on Oct. 7 unless they “support a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”

Andrea Rodriguez Avila was found dead in her residential hall on the campus of Rice University in Houston. The family of the 21-year-old issued a statement, saying her "precious life was lost to horrific violence."

Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.

The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.

Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, worked at the private, independent all-boys school in Roland Park from 2007 to 2023.

Free pre-K is on the table for every 4-year-old in Baltimore City.

The school board “was made aware of a potentially unsafe situation in the boardroom,” according to a statement from the school system.

Andrea Rodriguez Avila transferred to Rice, in Houston, Texas, last spring from the Community College of Baltimore County. She was from Nottingham, Maryland, and graduated from Perry Hall High School in 2021.

You can explore your test scores at your local school, or at any school in Maryland, on our searchable tables.

Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.

All county school buses will be outfitted with high-definition cameras to catch drivers who don’t stop while children are being dropped off or picked up.

Howard County Superintendent Bill Barnes isn’t like his predecessor. Many say he is the right person for the job.

Parents may barely have heard of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, but the expansive changes to public education are already shaping their children’s lives in school.

Matthew Jochmans, a teacher at Towson High School, is remembered for his sense of humor, intelligence and love for people.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

The latest version of Maryland State Department of Education’s literacy policy gives parents a right to challenge a decision to hold their child back.

“One thing about Leslie, he was not a downer. He was one that was really excited,” Elder Gregory Johnson said. “And so, while we are here in his remembrance, we know he has left such a great legacy in his life of just 16 years.”

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore will again require standardized test scores for undergraduate admissions.

A Harford County teacher has been arrested and charged in relation to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.

Two Harford County schools are experiencing contaminated water and students are encouraged to avoid drinking the water.