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A University of Virginia student who went on a field trip to see a play with classmates is the one suspected of opening fire inside the bus.

The suspect in the Sunday night shooting was identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. Two others were wounded in the shooting, which happened on a bus of students who were returning from an off-campus trip.

Forty-one socially conservative candidates from across Maryland ran for school board seats Tuesday — and 25 of them appear to be on their way to winning their races.

The new system could be used to scan high school students as they walk through the school doors, replacing metal detectors that were put in place last spring after a gun was found inside Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School.

While four races were contested, Chair Julie Henn, Vice Chair Rod McMillion and council member Christina Pumphrey each faced no opposition in their respective bids.

While other regional school board races sparked fiery, public debates about opponents’ extremist views, the first-ever elections for the city’s Board of School Commissioners were far less contentious.

Baltimore City Public Schools was the only Maryland school district to receive federal funding from a recent round of awards in fall 2022.

Ibn Williams, 22, of Newark, New Jersey, filed the lawsuit on Nov. 2 in Baltimore Circuit Court.

Ryan Coleman, the Randallstown NAACP president, listed specific goals the school system should meet to fix academic achievement among students of color and low-income students.

On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.

Books such as “Gender Queer” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” have become flash points in school board races nationwide, including in Maryland.

The Baltimore City school board goes back to in-person meetings, two-and-a-half years after the pandemic shut them down. But only five seats will be available for members of the general public.

A state senator and a left-leaning PAC have taken aim at candidates Maggie Litz Domanowski and Rebecca Chesner, while GOP elected officials have lent their support to candidates with conservative views on the teaching of race and gender.

A recent survey by the Capital News Service found that 34 school board candidates across the state cited school resource officers as the key to school safety.

Here’s a look at how schools throughout the state will address culturally and ethnically insensitive costumes this Halloween.

The guard stepped into the street to prepare the children to cross before a motorist hit her, sources say.

Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School, Carver Vocational Technical High School and Digital Harbor High School were selected for the launch.

For the past two years, the university recorded back-to-back historic enrollment figures, with 9,101 students this year and 8,469 in 2021.

Baltimore City scores dropped dramatically, but eighth graders did not lose as much ground during the pandemic on either math or reading tests as students across the state did.

Responding to criticism, Superintendent Darryl Williams said “there is a narrative in the community that we are not holding students accountable for their behaviors. That simply is not true.”