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Math teacher La'Tier Evans teaches algebra to students at Pocomoke High School.
Maryland test scores database: How did your local school do in 2024?
You can explore your test scores at your local school, or at any school in Maryland, on our searchable tables.
Kat Locke-Jones, a seventh-grade English teacher speaks with students during class at Hampstead Hill Academy in Baltimore.
Baltimore-area schools raise scores on Maryland tests as achievement elsewhere stalls
Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.
Gold medalists like Maryland’s Katie Ledecky, center, are an example of Olympians the state produces at very high rates, a Banner analysis found.
Analysis: Why does Maryland dominate at the Olympics? Look at the bank accounts.
Maryland has sent athletes to the 2024 Paris Olympics at one of the highest rates in the United States, a Baltimore Banner analysis found.
Patryk Tararuj’s business, Green Apple Cleaning of Baltimore, won a suit against Chasen Cos. this month.
Chasing Chasen: Small business scores big win over Baltimore developer as legal woes mount
The namesake company of Baltimore developer Brandon Chasen is facing additional legal troubles large and small.
A view from the entryway of a construction site that will become The Whitney, on South Caroline Street in Fells Point.
Contractor alleges Chasen Cos. owes almost $1 million for Meyer Seed Co. project
In court documents filed on April 15 but not previously available in Baltimore Circuit Court, Patriot Steel Fabrication Inc., a firm based in Church Creek, Dorchester County, asserts that Chasen Cos. owes the business more than $915,000.
Real estate developer Brandon Chasen is photographed during an interview at his company’s office building in Fells Point on May 30, 2024.
Baltimore’s flashiest developer wanted to expand nationally. Now he’s rethinking everything.
Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.
The Orioles are on pace to surpass 2 million in attendance for the first time since 2017.
The Orioles have been hot, and that’s bringing out the fans
If this pace continues, the Orioles’ attendance will be over 2 million for the first time since 2017, before the team’s rebuild began.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and a team of crime analysts from the University of Pennsylvania present findings from a new anti-violence report at a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The report shows the impact of the city’s group violence reduction strategy throughout a 2022 pilot program run in the Western District of Baltimore.
Gun violence is falling across the country. How does Baltimore compare?
According to a new report from the Center for American Progress, Baltimore’s drop in gun violence through the first half of May this year ranks second among the 50 largest U.S. cities when compared to the same period in 2023.
Banner analysis: Margin in white neighborhoods powered Scott to victory
Not only did Mayor Brandon Scott, who has enjoyed higher approval ratings among white voters, have massive margins in the White L, he also ran close to former Mayor Sheila Dixon in the city’s majority-Black precincts, a Banner analysis of preliminary election data found.
A tugboat and barge, shown here March 29, move past the twisted remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed when a cargo ship collided with it in the early hours of March 26. The bridge collapsed after being struck by the massive cargo ship Dali.
Key Bridge collapse could change rules for tugboats
Tugboats often don’t stay beside vessels as they come and go from the harbor.
The Frances Scott Key Bridge photographed Feb 17th, 2024.
Could Key Bridge crash have been avoided if ship had tugboat guides?
Chesapeake Bay pilots and tugboats help guide large container ships in and out of the harbor.
Maryland has a shortage of nurses and nursing assistants, exacerbated by long delays in getting their licenses.
Maryland needs more nurses. Their licenses are caught in red tape.
Amid a severe shortage, nurses and nursing assistants have struggled to their licenses approved by the Maryland Board of Nursing.
It’s not just the city. Baltimore County lost population last year, too, new data shows.
Counties around the state grew in 2023. But why is Baltimore still lagging behind?
Photo collage shows brick exterior of apartment building with broken glass in the windows. On right side is a close-up photo of a door, with dents and damaged trim. Layered over the door is an image of a cockroach and the seal of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Why 1 in 3 Baltimore public housing sites fail federal inspections
Baltimore’s government-subsidized public housing sites are failing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development inspections at a higher rate than the national average, a Banner analysis found.
Police recovered this gun, a Polymer80 with an extended magazine, after a car chase involving a teenager and a stolen car in Lochraven last October.
1 in 5 guns on Baltimore’s streets don’t have serial numbers. That’s a problem.
A Banner analysis of newly obtained police data shows ghost guns make up 20% of crime-related guns in Baltimore.
A cyclist heads south in bike lanes on Maryland Ave. in Baltimore. While the rate of pedestrian or bicyclist crashes rose in most of Maryland’s large counties, it dropped in the city.
Banner analysis: Pedestrian deaths rise in Maryland, drop in Baltimore
Maryland roadways grew more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists in 2023, threatening to undo the state’s progress prior to the pandemic.
Banner analysis: Homicide trend got better as the year went on
Baltimore typically sees a small increase in homicides at the end of the year, but not this year.
The South Baltimore community showed up for a candlelight vigil for Jaylen Richard, a 12-year-old fatally shot last Saturday, on April 20, 2023. (Kaitlin Newman / The Baltimore Banner)
With Baltimore homicides dropping below 300, who gets to take credit?
Even with the reduction in killings — Baltimore will record its lowest homicide total since tallying 211 in 2014 — the city’s murder rate remains among the highest in the nation and is similar to what it was in the 1990s.
A school can earn up to 100 points based on indicators such as academic achievement, academic progress, the proficiency of English language learners, chronic absenteeism, and whether a school has a well-rounded curriculum.
The Baltimore area’s 50 best schools in 2023, according to Maryland’s report card
Maryland gives schools one to five stars based on academic and nonacademic factors. This year’s ratings are the fourth time the state has used this rating system.
A student works on an assignment in reading class at Montebello Elementary/Middle School on Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
Maryland school ratings are lower this year. Is attendance to blame?
Fewer schools received three, four and five stars in the 2023 Maryland School Report Card ratings, even as test scores rose this year. So what happened?
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