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Where Howard County school board candidates stand on book ban debates
Howard County’s school board has historically resisted campaigns to get certain books off the shelves. Could this election flip the script?
Suspect in Pikesville AI case set off red flags before racist recording spread
Before he arrived at Pikesville High School last year, Dazhon Darien appear to have held jobs in at least five states.
Pikesville High School allegations show how AI can be misused. Is the law ready?
“AI and its easy availability is relatively new,” Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said in an interview. “And it usually doesn’t take very long for the bad guys to come up with ideas.”
Students speak out on Dazhon Darien, accused of framing principal with AI
To Pikesville High School students, the former athletic director’s arrest feels like justice.
A new use for a closed school in West Baltimore
Catholic Charities unveiled plans Thursday for a resource center at a shuttered school in the Franklintown Road neighborhood.
Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun
Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.
Johns Hopkins students, alumni and staff join wave of pro-Palestinian protests
The student protests that have been sweeping college campuses nationwide landed at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday.
Maryland schools have a new superintendent. She’s a familiar face.
The new Maryland State Superintendent of Education is committed to improving how schools teach reading and math.
Bus driver accused of sex abuse asked student to be last off the bus, court records say
Robert Lookingbill, 71, faces two felony sex abuse charges and two misdemeanor charges related to a March 1 incident in which he allegedly inappropriately touched a middle school student on the school bus he was driving.
Descendants of people enslaved by Jesuits tell their stories in PBS doc
Black Marylanders will be featured in the documentary “Finding Us,” which will be shown on PBS. They are part of the newly formed Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement Historical and Genealogical Society.
Frederick County bus driver, town commissioner charged with child sex abuse
Robert Lookingbill, 71, is also a town commissioner and faces two felony counts.
Commentary: Why book bans are dangerous
Kerry Graham argues that restricting books limits our access to think for ourselves.
Montgomery County teen accused of plotting school shooting held without bond
The teenager faces 10 years in prison if convicted.
A county library supported the ‘freedom to read.’ Commissioners threatened its funding.
Carroll County commissioners plan to withhold some additional funding to the public library because staff supported the Freedom to Read Act, they said in budget work sessions this month.
Rockville teen charged with plotting school shooting after FBI finds ‘manifesto’
A Montgomery County high school student has been charged with plotting a school shooting.
Ravens owner, M&T Bank will spend millions to help Baltimore kids get through college
Fewer than half of city graduates go to college, but the Ravens, the team’s owner and M&T Bank want to change that.
Goucher College to receive $50 million for scholarships, largest gift in its history
Ninety-nine percent of Goucher College students get financial aid or scholarships of some kind, its president said.
Democracy in action: Students in Anne Arundel, Howard to elect student members
Public school students in the Anne Arundel and Howard County school districts go to the polls soon to elect a student school board member, who will serve one year.
Baltimore County gets a new charter school — a rarity in suburban Maryland
The language-immersion school would join just one other charter school in the district.
