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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.
Myriam Yarbrough listens during a Baltimore County Board of Education meeting on July 11, 2023.
Baltimore County’s $2.5 billion school budget passes, cutting jobs and changing class sizes
The school board approved the funding plan after an uneasy budget season.
Gabriella Monroe holds a poster that says “Ban Bigotry Not Books” outside Howard County’s Central Branch library in Columbia on Feb. 26.
Protests interrupt Moms for Liberty meeting about removing books in Howard County schools
The conservative parents’ group Moms for Liberty was met by a flood of protesters at a Columbia library meeting room Monday.
Wellwood International School in Pikesville is one of the overcrowded schools participating in a northwest area redistricting process organized by Baltimore County Public Schools.
Where will your kids go to school next year? Baltimore County is about to decide.
The school board will vote in March on plans to redistribute thousands of students among 25 elementary schools.
Baltimore County Public Schools superintendent Myriam Rogers has proposed a budget that would lower class sizes in third through fifth grades.
Baltimore County’s superintendent wants to shrink some class sizes. That comes at a cost.
The investments in elementary schools Myriam Rogers has proposed will come with trade-offs.
The Howard County chapter of Moms for Liberty plans to follow Carroll County’s lead in a campaign to get “sexually explicit” school library books off the shelves.
Moms for Liberty takes aim at Howard County school library books
The conservative parents group is enlisting the help of the “mastermind” behind a book-ban campaign in Carroll County schools.
Alumni sent a letter to the Park School of Baltimore after it canceled an assembly about the war between Israel and Gaza.
Park School alumni group agrees on one thing: Opinions on Gaza shouldn’t be censored
More than 200 people have signed a letter to The Park School of Baltimore condemning the decision to abruptly cancel an assembly about the war between Israel and Hamas.
Baltimore County Public Schools superintendent Myriam Yarbrough pictured at a public forum on Thursday, June 15, 2023.
Baltimore Co. superintendent wants to cut hundreds of school jobs but won’t say which ones
Most of the jobs on the chopping block are vacant, but school system leaders want to give proper notice to the few who will be reassigned.
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