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?

The school board approved a $19.5 million contract for a new, research-based reading curriculum.

It’s been years since someone has been shot inside a Baltimore County school building, but threats of danger and a heightened sense of fear on and around campus have persisted.

Howard County’s school board will have to immediately select an interim superintendent.

The evaluations will determine whether children are being taught to read in a way that’s backed by research.

Not every holiday gift has to come from Amazon or even a huge chain store. Baltimore County offers many options for potential presents.

Black teachers leave Maryland schools at higher rates than any other group. We want to hear why.

Bowie State University has about 20 students at Jessup Correctional Institution working toward a bachelor's degree in sociology.

A school bus taking students to Vincent Farm Elementary School was involved in a crash in White Marsh.

Baltimore City school officials say they want to overhaul a merit-based salary scale that was considered a groundbreaking approach to teacher pay when it was adopted more than a decade ago.

Several school leaders said they used data to target help for struggling students.

For the first time, Baltimore County residents can tell the superintendent where they want to see school money spent at a series of community meetings.

Carey Wright, incoming interim state superintendent, said she’ll apply for a four-year term as the leader of the Maryland State Department of Education.

The announcement of a security barrier at Morgan State, which would enclose 90% of the campus, came one week after an alarming shooting that wounded five at the historically Black institution.

The science of reading is finally making its way to Maryland, but the shift has been slow and uneven.

Use our searchable tables to see how your school fared on 2023 MCAP tests.

Artscape's debut weekend didn't seem as crowded or sunny as it was in the recent past, some who attended said.

A tree also fell on tracks at a light rail station in Baltimore. The flooding was minimal and one official even said the storm was "uneventful."

A flood of challenges to school library books prompted Carroll County’s superintendent to temporarily take 56 titles off the shelves and change book selection procedures.

Baltimore County Police reported a man was shot in the hand Monday afternoon in the neighborhood next to Lansdowne Middle School, resulting in a brief lockdown at three schools.