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Baltimore City School CEO Sonja Santelises talks to student during a school tour.
Baltimore schools CEO could leave amid contract dispute. Insiders are worried.
Sonja Santelises would be one of the longest-serving urban superintendents if her contract is renewed.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have turned a grassy area on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus called “the beach” into a tent encampment.
Johns Hopkins ‘free Palestine’ protest remains peaceful, but tensions run high
Johns Hopkins University’s encampment has been growing every day into a tense but peaceful stalemate.
Shirley Collado, left, is the president and CEO of College Track, the organization that has supported Mamady Diallo, right, through high school and as a student at UMBC.
Ravens owner, M&T Bank will spend millions to help Baltimore kids get through college
Fewer than half of city graduates go to college, but the Ravens, the team’s owner and M&T Bank want to change that.
Mayor Brandon Scott and Police Commissioner Richard Worley address reporters Saturday, April 13, 2024, outside the Mondawmin Mall, where a 7-year-old girl was shot.
7-year-old shot Saturday at Mondawmin Mall; Baltimore Police say she wasn’t the target
A 7-year-old was shot at Mondawmin Mall on Saturday, and Baltimore Police searched for the shooter.
A tugboat and barge, shown here March 29, move past the twisted remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed when a cargo ship collided with it in the early hours of March 26. The bridge collapsed after being struck by the massive cargo ship Dali.
Key Bridge collapse could change rules for tugboats
Tugboats often don’t stay beside vessels as they come and go from the harbor.
Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, speaks at the Maryland Impact Conference in October 2023.
Baltimore school board and schools CEO Sonja Santelises silent on contract talks
Sonja Santelises, Baltimore City Public Schools’ longest-serving CEO in recent history, appears to be negotiating another four-year contract.
A portion of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after it was struck by a large container ship early Tuesday morning, March 26, 2024, sending several vehicles and people into the frigid water below.
NTSB to investigate whether ‘dirty fuel’ contributed to Key Bridge collapse
Total power failures like the one the Dali experienced before hitting the Key Bridge are rare, possibly caused by faulty equipment or contaminated fuel, experts said.
The cargo ship Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday in the early morning hours. Rescuers are still searching for six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time of the crash.
A frantic three minutes: How the ship’s pilot tried to prevent Key Bridge collapse
A Maryland pilot was in command of navigating the Dali in the three minutes before it hit the Key Bridge.
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.
A pole banner on UMBC campus near the Retriever Activities Center.
UMBC sexual misconduct investigation could cost the state $4.1 million
Maryland officials are set to pay $4.1 million to two groups of individuals identified from a Title IX investigation into the University of Maryland Baltimore County, which was just the subject of a blockbuster Title IX investigation of the university’s swim team by the Department of Justice.
From left, Tammatha Woodhouse, Principal of Renaissance Academy, and Jacque Hayden, Instructional Leadership Executive Director at Baltimore City Public Schools, stand in the hallway at Renaissance Academy on Friday, March 8, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
Baltimore principals are being threatened, punched and stalked — by parents
“I have never seen it this bad,” one principal said about the rising number of parents showing up at school ready to fight on behalf of their children.
The UMBC mascot and logo outside of the Retriever Activities Center.
Teammates shunned them. Now victims of a UMBC swim coach feel vindicated.
The federal investigation was one step toward justice, former swimmers say.
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.
Darice Cates, a kindergarten teacher at Montebello Elementary/Middle School, teaches a reading class on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Schools throughout the state are beginning to shift toward using a phonics style of instruction for reading, which is also known as “the science of reading.”
Baltimore City schools are constantly criticized. But here’s where they’re doing well
It’s a bright spot for the Baltimore City school system, which often trails the rest of the state on test scores.
A locker inside of Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
Remember Baltimore City Schools’ grade-changing scandal? That seems to be over
An outside audit of 18 million grades showed no evidence of widespread grade changing last school year.
Library and campus of the University of Maryland located in College Park, MD.
Did the University of Maryland overreact in shutting down Greek life? Some say so.
The University of Maryland at College Park has suspended Greek life social activities involving alcohol amid allegations of hazing. Some national fraternity and sorority organizations think the college went too far.
The exterior of the Baltimore City Schools Administrative Headquarters on North Ave.
Everyone else got accepted to high school. Some Baltimore students were left in limbo.
Glitches in a new system designed to make school choice run more smoothly in Baltimore City backfired for 200 students.
Jeff Lawson, superintendent of Cecil County Public Schools, visits Bay View Elementary, one of the schools expected to see a dramatic rise in funding following the shift to the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
Why Maryland school budgets are in turmoil — and what that means in classrooms
The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future is doing what it was designed to do: redistribute money to the students who have the greatest needs.
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.
Dr. Sonja Brookins Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, speaks at the Maryland Impact Conference Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Baltimore.
Time is nearly up. Will Baltimore City schools keep CEO Sonja Santelises?
The silence in February is unusual.
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