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Pikesville High School photographed on March 4, 2024.
Baltimore County schools hired him with fake credentials. Leaders ask ‘how many others?’
County leaders question the integrity of the schools’ hiring process and wonder who else slipped in under false pretenses.
Photo collage of silhouette of a bearded man cut out of generic diploma and resume with name “Dazhon Darien” on top. Scattered around the image are images of a mortarboard, football, first place ribbon and whistle on a yellow lanyard.
Man charged in racist AI scandal lied on résumé to get Baltimore County school job
Pikesville High School's ex-athletic director is accused of framing the principal using artificial intelligence. He's faked a lot more than that.
Carey Wright will take over as Maryland's interim schools superintendent this month.
Maryland’s new superintendent wants to change how we rate our schools
Wright wants to give families a clearer view of how well their children are taught in Maryland schools.
Dazhon Leslie Darien
Suspect in Pikesville AI case set off red flags before racist recording spread
Before he arrived at Pikesville High School last year, Dazhon Darien appear to have held jobs in at least five states.
Pikesville High School photographed on March 4, 2024.
Students speak out on Dazhon Darien, accused of framing principal with AI
To Pikesville High School students, the former athletic director’s arrest feels like justice.
Pikesville High School photographed on March 4, 2024.
Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun
Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.
Carey Wright will take over as Maryland's interim schools superintendent this month.
Maryland schools have a new superintendent. She’s a familiar face.
The new Maryland State Superintendent of Education is committed to improving how schools teach reading and math.
Carroll County’s public library requested a 3% increase in funding.
A county library supported the ‘freedom to read.’ Commissioners threatened its funding.
Carroll County commissioners plan to withhold some additional funding to the public library because staff supported the Freedom to Read Act, they said in budget work sessions this month.
Baltimore County’s school board will consider two charter school applications, one of which was recommended for approval by the school system.
Baltimore County gets a new charter school — a rarity in suburban Maryland
The language-immersion school would join just one other charter school in the district.
A banner on the UMBC campus near the Retriever Activities Center.
A sexual misconduct investigation will force UMBC to change. Will it be enough?
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County agreed to a long list of changes prescribed by the U.S. Department of Justice, but experts say true reform requires a culture change.
U.S. Rep. David Trone is seen as Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks speaks during a forum with other U.S. Senate candidates at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
After medical treatment, Trone withdraws from U.S. Senate debate with Alsobrooks
What was going to be the first U.S. Senate Democratic candidate debate of the primary election, had to pivot to a question-answer format.
The UMBC mascot and logo outside of the Retriever Activities Center.
Victims of UMBC swim coach could get up to $180,000 in sexual misconduct settlement
Swimmers could be entitled to $180,000 or $60,000 each as part of a settlement approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday.
A crane helps untangle the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Patapsco River.
This Key Bridge salvage crane has a secret CIA history
The Chesapeake 1000 was originally built for a secret operation to pull up a sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine from the ocean floor.
Cranes work on clearing debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Friday.
What it’ll take to clear the Key Bridge collapse site
Rescue and recovery efforts have turned to a salvage operation that Maryland Department of Transportation estimated Thursday would cost at least $60 million.
Photo collage shows Pikesville High School sign with pixellated audio waves in the background.
Baltimore County principal’s racist comments faked by AI, experts say
Audio purporting to be Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert was almost certainly faked using artificial intelligence.
Hampton Elementary School is one of four central Baltimore County schools that sought relief from overcrowding in the district’s largest boundary study.
Overcrowded Baltimore County schools will finally get relief. How long will it last?
The school system’s largest redistricting process has come to a close. Not everyone is confident the relief will be permanent.
A pole banner on UMBC campus near the Retriever Activities Center.
Sexual misconduct at UMBC prompts audit of policies at all Maryland campuses
The University System of Maryland will take deeper look at how its campuses can prevent the kind of abuse a federal investigation found at UMBC.
Valerie Sheares Ashby, president of UMBC, speaks at the Impact Maryland conference in October.
UMBC failed to protect athletes sexually assaulted by swim coach for years, DOJ finds
The investigation found that the University of Maryland Baltimore County knew about allegations of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination by a former head coach and failed to protect the students on his team.
Schools throughout the state are shifting toward the science of reading, a form of literacy instruction with an emphasis on phonics.
Maryland schools are changing the way they teach reading. One district is lagging.
The superintendent defended a controversial curriculum that some say is not teaching kids how to read properly.
Scotts Branch Elementary School in Windsor Mill is part of two Baltimore County Public Schools boundary studies this year.
Baltimore County schools chip away at overcrowding with new boundaries
The school system has approved the first of two redistricting processes, relocating about 430 students.
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