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As teacher Kerry Graham leaves her job, she pens a final thank you note to her students for the lessons they taught her.

On Friday, more than 1,000 Naval Academy midshipmen tossed their “covers” in the air as part of the traditional hat toss, a ritual ending their four years in Annapolis and part of the moment that most become commissioned Navy and Marine Corps officers.

U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger wants Congress to approve a clean debt ceiling increase and he opposes Republican budget proposals that he says would cut funding for programs vital to Marylanders.

An ordinary fight between two boys at Brooklyn Park Middle School metastasized and resulted in the death of Christopher Wright, who was killed while protecting his son from five students and adults who showed up outside their townhouse.

Preschool teachers don't have the most glamorous job, yet they undertake the Herculean task of turning toddlers into miniature members of society, people who can (usually) take turns, follow directions and not hit. As my youngest child prepares to graduate from preschool, I want to thank the teachers who have put their hearts into caring for our kids.

“That’s 19 students, 17 young men and two young women, and one who I would even call not really even within the range of manhood quite yet,” CEO Sonja Santelises said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a surprise address at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony via livestream Thursday morning.

Baltimore County is committed to making community college tuition free, and that educational opportunity needs to be available nationwide, say Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. and Community College of Baltimore County President Sandra L. Kurtinitis.

The Navy flight demonstration team’s annual show over Annapolis is what drew Baltimore Banner photojournalist Ulysses Muñoz and me to Annapolis, cameras in hand. I got to see it from a boat in the Severn River, a first for me. He shot from the State House dome. Check out what we got.

College was too expensive for Brenda Rivera, but she vowed her daughters would have the opportunity to go. Then she got the chance to go, too, graduating from Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Meade Senior High School was listed for sale on Zillow for just over $42,000 in Anne Arundel County — a steal at about 12 cents per square foot. The listing is a senior prank that the school system is taking in good spirits.

Carmelo Anthony retires as one of the greatest scorers in NBA history, leaving a legacy of inspiring young men in Baltimore, where he grew up and began pursuing his dream on the city’s playgrounds, writer Alanah Nichole Davis says.

“A threat to any history is a threat to all history,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, stepping into the national debate over conservative attempts to restrict teaching of race, sexuality and other issues.

The promise the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling held for many in Baltimore and elsewhere stands in sharp contrast to enduring school segregation almost 70 years later, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Maryland’s state school board will decide in the coming months whether to give Mohammed Choudhury a new, four-year contract as superintendent when his ends on June 30, 2024.

A reader asked The Baltimore Banner to investigative what techniques schools are using to diffuse violence.

Myriam Yarbrough, the next Baltimore County Schools superintendent, said she believes in the system’s potential.

The Naval Academy Class of 2026 on Wednesday morning joined a long list of plebes who, for over 60 years, have scrambled up an obelisk to swap a midshipman’s cover for a Dixie cup.

The goal of this rite of passage is for classmates to scale the monument, which is covered with shortening, remove the “Dixie cup” hat at the top and replace it with an upperclassman’s hat, called a “cover.” With this, the freshmen are no longer considered plebes.

Following months of confusion about the school’s fate, Baltimore County’s school board approved Golden Ring Middle School’s closure Tuesday night.