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Eight candidates are vying for the first time for two seats on the Board of School Commissioners. Four candidates will win places in the primary in the nonpartisan race.

Candidates for the Baltimore County school board were seeking to advance Tuesday night from primaries to the November general election.

Chilean authorities found Luke Gabriel Bird's body in the waterfall’s lagoon on Sunday.

Women flocked to law schools in Maryland and nationally after Donald Trump was elected president, with many seeking to fight policies they felt were hostile to their gender. Some say the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe. v. Wade could have a similar effect.

The dysfunctional picture of the Baltimore County school board painted by its public meetings is grim enough. What lies beneath the surface appears much uglier.

The Baltimore County school board has recently fought with its auditor in court, appeared on the verge of ousting its superintendent, and had its ugly internal interactions aired in a courtroom.

Baltimore City residents will have their first opportunity to elect two candidates for the school board. Here's the choice.

Responses from the Baltimore County school board candidates in this nonpartisan race show wide differences of opinion on contentious topics such as race, LGBTQ issues and masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The State Board of Education must now rule on whether the school board acted correctly in renewing her contract

Long-simmering divisions among Baltimore County school board members turned into ugly accusations in a county courtroom on Wednesday, with one board member accusing the other of threatening a lawsuit against her.

Now teaching is a part of my identity.

It's unfair to encourage student borrowers to take on a crippling economic obligation knowing that it might be years before they make more than they paid for their degrees.

Auditor Andrea Barr contended that the decision not to renew her contract followed threats by some school board members to bend to their agendas.

The long-standing practice of seclusion will be banned in Maryland's public schools when a new state law takes effect on July 1, but seclusion will still be allowed in private schools funded with public tax dollars.

And so I learn to teach in a way I was never taught to learn.

The CollegeBound College Completion Program, which graduated its first cohort in 2021, is helping to shepherd an extraordinary number of students who attended Baltimore City schools through college.

The fate of Superintendent Darryl Williams remains a closely guarded secret among a divided school board a week after calls for dismissal.

This summer Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises will become the longest serving school leader in the city since 1988. Five police chiefs and four mayors have come and gone since she began her job in July 2016. Now the biggest question is, will she stay long enough to turn the system around?

About 57% of residents disapprove or strongly disapprove of the job CEO Sonja Santelises is doing.

This frustration bordering on panic, or maybe dread — my reaction to not being heard — is how I’ve felt since the pandemic began. I’ve taught high school English in Baltimore City for over a decade; every year, it seems educators cry louder for help