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He was accused of child sexual abuse 30 years ago. Now he’s running for school board.
Anne Arundel County candidate Chuck Yocum never returned to his teaching job at Northeast High School.
Though Charles “Chuck” Yocum, 61, of Pasadena, was found not guilty of the charges 30 years ago, Anne Arundel County Public Schools officials had enough concerns that he never returned the classroom.
Maryland State Teacher of the Year is once again from Baltimore City
Kat Locke-Jones was one of seven teachers from around the state selected as finalists.
Kat Locke-Jones Maryland Teacher of the Year
A New York investor came to town. His next moves could threaten a Baltimore school
As many as 120 Yorkwood Elementary School students could be pushed out of their community, with devastating consequences to their school.
Neighborhood children enjoy a playground at Dutch Village apartments in Northeast Baltimore.
He had ‘a tough message’ for Baltimore’s school board. The meeting ended abruptly.
The school board “was made aware of a potentially unsafe situation in the boardroom,” according to a statement from the school system.
The exterior of the Baltimore City Schools administrative headquarters on North Avenue.
Baltimore-area schools raise scores on Maryland tests as achievement elsewhere stalls
Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.
Kat Locke-Jones, a seventh-grade English teacher speaks with students during class at Hampstead Hill Academy in Baltimore.
Maryland education reform kicks into high gear this school year. It’s getting sticky.
Parents may barely have heard of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, but the expansive changes to public education are already shaping their children’s lives in school.
Parents may barely have heard of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, but the expansive changes to public education are already shaping their children’s lives in school.
More Maryland schools are locking up cellphones and banning them from class
Across the Baltimore region, schools are joining a national trend cracking down on kids’ phone use.
Eighth grader Bria Shah slides a cellphone into a Yondr pouch, a device Hampstead Hill Academy uses to lock up students’ phones during the school day.
What happens when your AP test gets lost? Baltimore County students are finding out
Students were told they can either retake the three-hour exam or get a refund.
Maryland third graders who aren’t reading well would be held back under new rule
The policy could result in thousands of third graders being held back, but some research shows it could work.
___ works on an assignment in reading class at Montebello Elementary/Middle School 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.”
CDC says Maryland has at least 5 cases of listeria
Two people died of listeria in Illinois and New Jersey.
Maryland has the second highest number of cases of Listeria, a bacterial infection that can cause flu-like symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
Baltimore teachers and principals want transparency in search for new schools CEO
The Baltimore City school board needs to find a CEO next year. It’s not saying much about how that’ll happen.
Baltimore Teachers Union President Diamonté Brown called for public input in the school system’s search for a CEO next year.
Is African American studies ‘divisive’? This school board changed its mind
Previously, some Harford County school board members said they believed the African American studies course was too political and didn’t include enough positive history.
Harford County’s school board approved a new Advanced Placement African American studies course in July after rejecting it last month.
Nasty fight over Maryland’s renegade PTA chapter could cost $1 million
A yearslong legal battle over control of Maryland’s PTA chapter could result in more than $1 million in legal fees and squandering member dues, real estate and other assets in pursuit of the case.
A yearslong legal battle over control of Maryland’s PTA chapter could result in more than $1 million in legal fees and squandering member dues.
Leadership of Baltimore City schools will be decided, in part, by these 3 people
All three new school board members have children in Baltimore City Public Schools system and two are former teachers.
All three new school board members, who were interviewed by a board that advised the mayor on who to hire, have children in the school system and two have extensive backgrounds in education, including as teachers.
Maryland’s former superintendent quietly resigned. Where is he headed?
Board of education officials acknowledged for the first time that the embattled former chief of schools has left the state.
Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury, state school board president Clarence Crawford and school board vice president Josh Michael at a press conference in August.
Maryland is spending billions more on education. Here’s what leaders want in return.
“If you don’t set ambitious goals, you’re never going to reach them," said Carey Wright, Maryland's Superintendent of Schools.
“If you don’t set ambitious goals, you’re never going to reach them," said Carey Wright, Maryland's Superintendent of Schools.
What a fight over $1.9 million in pay says about training for veteran teachers
Baltimore City teachers were submitting 60 course credits — the equivalent of two masters degrees — in a year. Something seemed fishy.
An empty hallway full of lockers inside Hampstead Hill Academy on 8/29/22. Monday was the first day back to school for Baltimore City students.
How Baltimore is getting vulnerable students back in school and across the stage
Since the pandemic, Baltimore City schools have poured resources into getting kids to school every day and to graduation. And it’s working.
Staff and students walk through the hallways of the Excel Academy at Francis M. Wood High School, where efforts to boost attendance have received mayoral recognition.
Baltimore City schools will keep its CEO — but not for long
Just before the last day of school, Sonja Santelises and Baltimore's school board finally struck a deal for her to stay.
The Baltimore City school board gave Sonja Santelises an unusually short contract.
A Baltimore educator’s family tragedy refocused her teaching on mental health
It’s difficult for teachers to balance catching students up academically and attending to their mental health. Kat Locke-Jones may have cracked the code.
Kate Locke Jones, a seventh grade English teacher poses for a portrait inside of her classroom at Hampstead Hill Academy, May 22, 2024.
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