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Anne Arundel County’s schools superintendent is leading an effort to dump the 180-day calendar, but his proposal faces an uncertain future in the General Assembly.

Years before Rachel Hilson starred in hit television dramas like NBC’s "This is Us," she was a young artist who trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, a nationally recognized public arts high school whose alums include artists like Tupac Shakur, Jada Pinkett Smith and fashion designer Christian Siriano.

More job layoffs are expected at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where administrators say plunging undergraduate enrollment has effectively made the historic city arts institution a smaller college.

The school board approved a budget giving all employees a cost-of-living raise, giving all high schools an athletic trainer, and allowing most kids to stay in virtual learning.

Around the state, more than 50 of the buildings that once housed all-Black or so-called “colored schools” remain.

After a split vote a week ago, the city school board voted unanimously to give Collegiate School for Boys a second chance.

Superintendent Darryl Williams’ proposed budget has been lambasted from all sides, with educators calling for more funds and County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. calling for less.

Ask MTA administrators and transit activists, and you’ll get the same answer: No idea. It’s just been that way forever.

A Baltimore County high school student will spend a week in Washington, D.C., next month with U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen.

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The Howard County school board approved a new bell schedule pushing high school start times back to 8 a.m.

HBCU grads in Maryland tout their college experience and say it has helped them excel in society.

In the past seven years, about 20,000 students have received scholarships to state-approved private and parochial schools that agree not to discriminate against students based on race, color, national origin or sexual orientation.

Baltimore County is the latest school system grappling with whether to continue its online learning program and how to pay for it.

One expert in state-backed college savings plans said she has never seen anything like what’s unfolding now in Maryland.

Chris Bendann, 38, of Towson — who taught at the independent, private all-boys school from 2007-2023 — is charged with sexual abuse of a minor, rape, perverted practice and related offenses.

The building that had been called Maury Hall was built and named in the early 1900s after Matthew Fontaine Maury, a naval officer and scientist who joined the Confederates.

Before David Linthicum was found and arrested, Baltimore County Public Schools closed six schools on Feb. 9 as a precaution. Parents had to explain to their kids why they had to stay home.

Draper was eminently qualified to practice law in Maryland when he applied for admission to the Maryland Bar in 1857 but was denied admission because he was Black. Attorney John G. Browning says admitting Draper to the Maryland Bar posthumously is a step toward reckoning with the history of discrimination in the legal profession.

District staff say lower enrollment and cost savings justify cutting the jobs, but union leaders and the school board chair worry teachers could lose critical support.