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Virginia enacted a law last year requiring schools to have classes on gambling and its addictive potential. Similar legislation failed in Maryland and West Virginia in recent years, but they’re expected to try again.

The school system noted that since 2017, it has decreased the number of schools without air conditioning from 75 to 13.

Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, had his spelling career interrupted by the pandemic, then didn’t make it out of his regional bee last year.

Salaries for new Baltimore County Public Schools teachers will go from $52,927 to $58,500 starting next school year.

The new Nature Education Center is meant to give visitors an experience beyond their limited encounters with urban trees.

Parents, schools and health care providers are vital in helping teens through today’s unprecedented mental health challenges, says Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi, president and chief executive officer of Sheppard Pratt.

As teacher Kerry Graham leaves her job, she pens a final thank you note to her students for the lessons they taught her.

On Friday, more than 1,000 Naval Academy midshipmen tossed their “covers” in the air as part of the traditional hat toss, a ritual ending their four years in Annapolis and part of the moment that most become commissioned Navy and Marine Corps officers.

Preschool teachers don't have the most glamorous job, yet they undertake the Herculean task of turning toddlers into miniature members of society, people who can (usually) take turns, follow directions and not hit. As my youngest child prepares to graduate from preschool, I want to thank the teachers who have put their hearts into caring for our kids.

An ordinary fight between two boys at Brooklyn Park Middle School metastasized and resulted in the death of Christopher Wright, who was killed while protecting his son from five students and adults who showed up outside their townhouse.

U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger wants Congress to approve a clean debt ceiling increase and he opposes Republican budget proposals that he says would cut funding for programs vital to Marylanders.

“That’s 19 students, 17 young men and two young women, and one who I would even call not really even within the range of manhood quite yet,” CEO Sonja Santelises said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a surprise address at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony via livestream Thursday morning.

Baltimore County is committed to making community college tuition free, and that educational opportunity needs to be available nationwide, say Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. and Community College of Baltimore County President Sandra L. Kurtinitis.

The Navy flight demonstration team’s annual show over Annapolis is what drew Baltimore Banner photojournalist Ulysses Muñoz and me to Annapolis, cameras in hand. I got to see it from a boat in the Severn River, a first for me. He shot from the State House dome. Check out what we got.

College was too expensive for Brenda Rivera, but she vowed her daughters would have the opportunity to go. Then she got the chance to go, too, graduating from Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Meade Senior High School was listed for sale on Zillow for just over $42,000 in Anne Arundel County — a steal at about 12 cents per square foot. The listing is a senior prank that the school system is taking in good spirits.

Carmelo Anthony retires as one of the greatest scorers in NBA history, leaving a legacy of inspiring young men in Baltimore, where he grew up and began pursuing his dream on the city’s playgrounds, writer Alanah Nichole Davis says.

“A threat to any history is a threat to all history,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, stepping into the national debate over conservative attempts to restrict teaching of race, sexuality and other issues.

The promise the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling held for many in Baltimore and elsewhere stands in sharp contrast to enduring school segregation almost 70 years later, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.