Baltimore City Community College faculty ratify first union contract
Baltimore City Community College is the seventh institution to ratify a contract since the Maryland legislature first granted community college faculty the right to unionize in 2021.
Baltimore County board member apologizes for social media post deemed ‘anti-Muslim’
A Baltimore County school board member apologized Tuesday for a social media post that some critics accused of “promoting anti-Muslim stereotypes.”
Baltimore County charter school survives shutdown threat amid director’s troubled past
Board of Education member Pete Fitzpatrick withdrew his motion to reconsider the school’s charter agreement.
Bus tracking app failures left 10,000 Prince George’s students without a ride on the first day
About 10,000 students were left without a ride to school after a bus tracking app crashed.
‘Dolly Parton wants to give you a gift’: How the country music icon helped Marylanders learn to read
The late music superstar helped millions of children get hooked on reading through her international Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program.
Maryland delays a key part of the plan to fix math test scores
The directive is one piece of a sweeping math policy Maryland adopted last year.
University of Maryland predicts 30% decline in new international grad students due to Trump visa restrictions
The University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, painted a bleak picture of the consequences in federal lawsuit filings.
Educators welcome Maryland students back to school
Monday is the first day of school in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel and Howard counties, along with transition day in Montgomery County schools. Coppin State, Towson and UMBC students return to classes, too.
Are Baltimore County schools ready to open? Here’s a look, by the numbers.
Superintendent Bill Heiser gave news media and county officials a rundown of teacher vacancies, completed school construction projects, school bus driver shortages and more on Monday morning.
Maryland schools will teach math differently this year. Here’s what to expect.
Parents will be happy to know they shouldn’t have to rearrange their evenings to help their children with math homework.
Montgomery County officials are concerned about changes to Head Start
If the proposed Head Start changes are approved, they could create additional financial strain on Montgomery County.
‘They’re building it just for me’: Montgomery County students welcomed onto new campus
The $59 million Burtonsville Elementary building was years in the making.
Montgomery County schools facing a $3 billion maintenance backlog, officials say
The Montgomery County Public Schools system is operating with an estimated $3 billion deferred maintenance backlog, officials said.
Can a former soccer star rebuild trust in Baltimore County schools?
Bill Heiser has promised to raise graduation rates and test scores and rebuild trust in Baltimore County schools, where repeated budget cuts have hurt morale.
Streeter: Kids’ school supplies shouldn’t depend on which parents can still afford to give
COLUMN | Parents who have always donated school supplies to their kids’ schools and others’ are now stretched so thin that they can’t. And that’s tragic.
Penn State frat pledges were made to cut and bag cocaine for college drug ring, authorities say
Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said.
Anne Arundel schools updates gender identity regulation following Trump administration threats
The years-old policy became the focus of intense scrutiny last month after parents of an area high school student filed a federal lawsuit alleging teachers and staff lied about and hid their child’s gender transition.
Judge denies release of Maryland university instructor from ICE detention
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret will remain in immigration detention, where he has been held for four weeks, a judge has ruled.
The first day of school in Maryland was political — until now
For the first time in 10 years, all schools start before Labor Day, ending a tradition former Gov. Larry Hogan began.
Towson University hires former St. John’s College president to lead new civics center
Nora Demleitner, who led Annapolis-based St. John’s College for three years, will become executive director of the Ben and Myrna Cardin Center for Civic Engagement and Discourse at Towson University.
