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What started as a health education bill could end up giving the Maryland schools superintendent broad power to withhold funding from school districts who don't follow curriculum guidance.

The Baltimore arts college is among a number of small institutions finding themselves at a painful crossroads as the dust from the pandemic settles.

Education advocates hoping to secure more state funding for Baltimore City schools lost in the latest round of a nearly 30-year-old lawsuit.

Excluding NORAD’s Christmas Eve Santa tracker, there may not be a world map viewed so many times as the one Johns Hopkins University engineers created to keep tabs on COVID-19.

Of 155 students reporting assaults during the 2022 school year, students at the U.S. Naval Academy reported 61 — nearly double the school’s total for the previous year.

A closer look at Maryland School Report Card data helps answer why Baltimore City and Baltimore County schools performed so poorly.

Carter was an “intelligent kid who came into the program to keep out of the noise," his JROTC instructor said.

In the first update to Maryland School Report Card ratings since 2019, Baltimore City and county schools performed worst in the region.

Over 50 years have passed since she was last in school as a teenager. But now school is back in session for a 73–year-old who is enrolled in a Baltimore City Community College program to get her diploma.

The College Board stripped down its AP African American Studies curriculum, failing to create a curriculum that centers Black scholars, two University of Maryland College of Education professors say.

Maryland’s State School Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury has become an activist in his new role, pushing legislation in a way that prior superintendents haven’t.

Moses Ingram is part of a contingent of Black Maryland women dominating TV and film roles.

After the fourth fatal shooting of a teenager on or near school grounds this school year, teacher Kerry Graham writes: “Our city must change. Children are dying. Unnecessarily. Violently. Often.”

“The bill establishes a precedent, which is absent right now. And that precedent is protection of historical facts and the history of African Americans,” Mfume said.

Overcrowding is atop the list of issues Baltimore County’s next school superintendent will have to address, a parent of three county school students says. Robin Campbell says that overall, communities favor a more decentralized approach instead of having so many administrative responsibilities being under the control of Baltimore County Public Schools headquarters.

Reading aloud to children lays the foundation for learning, says Claudia Nachtigal, head of school at The Highlands School in Bel Air.

Teacher Kerry Graham remembers when a student could tell that she was not OK — and she didn’t pretend that she was.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says residents of the most vulnerable city neighborhoods favor tougher sentences for illegal gun possession, despite opposition from some in academia.

The school system expects a federal program will allow them to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students.