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Is Golden Ring Middle School closing? Baltimore County schools won’t confirm its fate.
Confusion is brewing over what will happen to the Rosedale school. A Baltimore County Public Schools will only say it’s being “repurposed.”
Golden Ring Middle School, Rosedale, MD., March 31, 2023.
What Baltimore County parents and teachers want in their next schools superintendent
It’s clear the Baltimore County Public Schools community wants the system’s new leader to be a lot different from the current one.
An adult walks a child to the front of a school building.
A Maryland school district stopped excusing therapy appointments. Parents were enraged.
Allegany County’s school system blames one provider for what it calls excessive absences and unsafe transportation to appointments.
Photo collage showing silhouette of young forlorn boy, school desks, and therapist taking notes on clipboard.
Maryland is rapidly adding community schools. But are they working?
The community school model has grown exponentially in Maryland. But even some of the strongest supporters acknowledge that the rapid growth comes with some downsides.
James Matamoros teaches his fifth grade class at Berkshire Elementary School on March 3, 2023.
A Maryland bill could change who controls what’s taught in schools
What started as a health education bill could end up giving the Maryland schools superintendent broad power to withhold funding from school districts who don't follow curriculum guidance.
6/10/22—Ash Tough, 13, holds a Pride flag up in front of Northwest Middle School in Taneytown.
3 reasons Baltimore City and Baltimore Co. schools were rated lowest in the region
A closer look at Maryland School Report Card data helps answer why Baltimore City and Baltimore County schools performed so poorly.
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New Maryland school ratings are out. Baltimore City and county performed among the worst.
In the first update to Maryland School Report Card ratings since 2019, Baltimore City and county schools performed worst in the region.
Lockers in the hallway outside Damien Ford’s Baltimore School for The Arts classroom on Dec. 21, 2022. Ford teaches an African American Literature class where shows his students comparisons between Lauryn Hill lyrics and the work of Zora Neal Hurston.
Baltimore County schools expect to feed kids for free next school year
The school system expects a federal program will allow them to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students.
School administrators work hard to ensure that the thousands of means consumed by students across the district comply with the strict nutrional guidelines imposed by the federal government to establish healthy eating habits at a young age.
5 things to know about next year’s Baltimore County schools budget
The school board approved a budget giving all employees a cost-of-living raise, giving all high schools an athletic trainer, and allowing most kids to stay in virtual learning.
Educators of Baltimore County Public Schools rally for better pay outside the Baltimore County board of education building in Towson.
Breathing new life into Maryland’s former all-Black schools
Around the state, more than 50 of the buildings that once housed all-Black or so-called “colored schools” remain.
Harriet Tubman Foundation President, Bessie Bordenave, and a 1962 graduate of the Harriet Tubman School, poses for a portrait inside of the Bernice Beaird Recreated Classroom at the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
Baltimore County teachers union to protest schools budget with little to no raises
Superintendent Darryl Williams’ proposed budget has been lambasted from all sides, with educators calling for more funds and County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. calling for less.
Kathleen Cave, right, and other Baltimore County Public School teachers stand together with signs calling out BCPS for pay being withheld, mistakes with benefits, delays in tuition reimbursement and stalled certification, during a school board meeting Tuesday, December 6.
Eastern Tech senior is one of two Maryland students selected for U.S. Senate Youth Program
A Baltimore County high school student will spend a week in Washington, D.C., next month with U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen.
Student Maja Durkovic takes a protrait in her schools mock trial room located in Eastern Technical High School on February 9, 2023. Durkovic is one of two Maryland students, that. have been selected to participate in the U.S. Senate Program.
Howard County high schools will get later start times next year
The Howard County school board approved a new bell schedule pushing high school start times back to 8 a.m.
Baltimore City school buses.
Maryland schools grapple with how to fund virtual learning as pandemic money dries up
Baltimore County is the latest school system grappling with whether to continue its online learning program and how to pay for it.
Zoomed in photo of a young boy's hand using the tablet and typing something on the keyboard.
For Cockeysville parents, manhunt led to tough conversations
Before David Linthicum was found and arrested, Baltimore County Public Schools closed six schools on Feb. 9 as a precaution. Parents had to explain to their kids why they had to stay home.
A SWAT team investigates a house on Warren Rd near Loch Raven Reservoir during a manhunt for 24-year-old Cockeysville resident David Emory Linthicum.
Baltimore County schools propose cutting 162 vacant teacher positions
District staff say lower enrollment and cost savings justify cutting the jobs, but union leaders and the school board chair worry teachers could lose critical support.
The sign near the entrance to the Baltimore County Board of Education’s Greenwood Campus on 8/18/22.
Following manhunt, David Linthicum apprehended, charged in shootings of 2 officers
The 24-year-old Cockeysville man faces a total of 11 counts in connection with the recent shootings of a police officer and a detective in separate incidents.
A SWAT team investigates a house on Warren Rd near Loch Raven Reservoir during a manhunt for 24-year-old Cockeysville resident David Emory Linthicum.
Baltimore charter schools accuse district of unlawfully withholding funds
The Baltimore City Public Schools system is keeping a portion of state funding the charter schools say should be theirs.
Several Baltimore City charter school operators are asking the Maryland State Department of Education to intervene in the way the city school system funds its charter schools, Baltimore Montessori Public School being one of them, February 7, 2023.
Edmondson-Westside High School student killed in Northeast Baltimore shooting
The West Baltimore high school has lost two students to gun violence since last month.
Police tape seen at the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and Lauren Street.
New AP African American studies curriculum won’t limit Baltimore-area teachers
Following criticism from conservative politicians in Florida, the College Board revised the curriculum to make some contemporary topics optional.
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
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