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Liz Bowie is a Maryland education reporter for the Baltimore Banner. She covers how statewide education decisions are made: Who wields the power, who wins, who loses and what that means for Maryland's kids. She spent more than two decades covering city, county and state education issues for The Baltimore Sun. Her favorite stories are those that focus on students. She was a Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting at Columbia University. She grew up in Baltimore.

The latest from Liz Bowie

The Somerset County school board is in a battle with state education officials.
5 things to know about Somerset County’s education fight
It’s about more than trying to remove the school district superintendent.
The Baltimore City Public Schools Administrative Headquarters on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
Federal education officials investigating Baltimore schools for antisemitism
An ADL complaint alleged that Baltimore school officials ignored incidents of antisemitic discrimination and harassment.
State warns Eastern Shore school district seeking to oust superintendent
Maryland's schools leader says they could withhold funding or seek to remove school board members if Somerset County tries to oust its superintendent.
An ADL complaint says the Baltimore school system, which is headquartered on North Avenue, hasn't done enough to address what the group says is harassment of Jewish students.
Baltimore schools ignored antisemitism complaints, ADL alleges
Baltimore City Public Schools, the complaint says, knew its schools were hostile places for Jewish students.
The Somerset County Board of Education in Westover.
How a MAGA school board takeover roiled an Eastern Shore county
After a MAGA-aligned majority took control of Somerset County's school board, they tried to get rid of librarians and fire the superintendent. The community pushed back.
The Baltimore City Public Schools Administrative Headquarters on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
Baltimore Police investigating pornographic school board interruption as hate crime
In an email Wednesday, the Baltimore City school system apologized to the community after the pornographic interruption.
Baltimore city buses pick up students outside Dunbar High School in June.
Long bus rides limit students’ school choices, Hopkins study finds
Baltimore high school students are less likely to pick a school — even the city’s best — if they face a long trip on Maryland’s unreliable transit system.
Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners vice chair Ashiah Parker, left, and chair Robert Salley earlier this year. The school system plans to hire a new CEO by April.
Who will be Baltimore’s next school leader? It may take nine months to find out.
The board is expected to be interviewing candidates this fall with a new CEO hired by April.
Trump tax bill could mean a lot more money for Maryland private school vouchers
Maryland could see an explosion of school voucher funding for students to attend schools now that President Donald Trump’s tax and policy bill passed.
Maryland’s state board of education approved updates to social studies standards over concerns about growing antisemitism.
Maryland social studies curriculum update reflects concerns about antisemitism
Maryland's rewrite was criticized at points for some of the initial changes and for leaving social studies teachers out of the process.
Baltimore city bus #54, the brown route, does a loop from downtown up to Hillendale and back again on June 4, 2025.
It’s not just late buses: Baltimore kids face serious safety risks
Baltimore students have been followed, harassed, assaulted and held up at gunpoint while crisscrossing the city on public transit to get to and from school.
Community members march in honor of the recently-killed arabber, Bilal "BJ" Adbullah, on Friday, June 20, 2025.
‘Justice for the fruit man’: Hundreds rally for arabber fatally shot by Baltimore police
More than 300 people rallied in Upton on Friday evening to demand justice for Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, the well-known arabber fatally shot in Upton by police this week.
In this June 20, 2018 photo, Bilal Yusuf Abdullah, center, leads a horse to an arabber stable as neighborhood boys tag along in Baltimore. Baltimore has long been the last U.S. city to have functional horse-cart vending.
Grief and questions follow fatal police shooting of arabber BJ Abdullah
Chair of a police oversight board and city council member say they are heartbroken and awaiting answers after Tuesday’s fatal police shooting in West Baltimore.
A man crashed a car into a tractor-trailer at the intersection of Hanover Street and West Cromwell Street, near the Hanover Street Bridge.
Car crashes into tractor-trailer near Hanover Street Bridge after alleged carjacking
A man, who police say walked up to a car in Brooklyn with a rifle, ordered the driver out of the car and then sped away, later crashed in South Baltimore.
Baltimore Banner Editor-in-Chief, Kimi Yoshino.
Founding editor Kimi Yoshino to leave The Banner for The Washington Post
Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner for three and a half years as its first editor-in-chief, will leave to become a senior editor at The Washington Post.
Renderings of the design for the updated campus of Baltimore City College in East Baltimore. The final review of the building design and pre-construction kick-off are slated for Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
Baltimore City College gets a bold, modern upgrade: See the renderings
The “Castle on the Hill” is slated for a face-lift that would wrap a back corner of the building in an austere modern facade.
Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Carey Wright issued guidance on charter school funding this month.
Baltimore charter schools say they’re underfunded. State leaders seem to agree.
The ongoing dispute between Baltimore’s school system and its 31 charter schools came to another turning point this month.
Carey Wright, the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, said that no other state has heard from the federal education department about getting reimbursements from the U.S. Department of Education.
Feds silent as Maryland pleads for $232 million in missing school money
Maryland is just one of the states that have submitted or resubmitted bills to the U.S. Department of Education.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined 18 other states challenging the U.S. education department’s threats to withhold school funding.
Maryland lawsuit challenges federal threats to withhold education funding
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined attorneys general from 18 other states to sue the Trump administration.
Carey M. Wright, Maryland state superintendent of schools, and Josh Michael, the state school board president, released a joint statement Thursday on diversity programming in schools.
Maryland schools won’t end diversity programs, despite Trump demands
Thursday's statement was carefully worded and didn’t contain the strong language coming from some states that openly defied the Trump administration.
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