With the first day of school right around the corner, here’s a primer on the Baltimore area’s new school leaders, bus changes, COVID policies and more.

Three quarters of Maryland public school students failed the state’s math tests in grades three through eight this spring, an indication of just how much math students didn’t learn during the year of Zoom classes, and how difficult it has been for teachers to catch them up.

Maryland educators and academics said the ban on race-conscious college admissions will make them work harder to encourage Black and Latino students to apply to selective colleges.

Flannery and Liam Gallagher, the children of Frank X. Gallagher Jr., say that after the abuse their father “experienced extreme emotional distress” and began experimenting with drugs and engaging in compulsive and risky sexual encounters.

The now-canceled plans had shocked Maryland Family Network officials, who worried child care providers could lose crucial funding and face staff furloughs.

Marylanders approve of the job Moore is doing, but not his push to eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, according to a new poll.

Baltimore City Public Schools is losing about 12% of its teacher workforce each year.

With the identification of the late Philadelphia nun, all the names have been unmasked in the attorney general report.

The suit seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent the Oldfields School board from selling the land to Garrison Forest School.

Imtiaz Patel, the chief executive officer of The Baltimore Banner, will step down on July 7 to take a senior leadership position with Gannett.

Attorneys say state officials have “illegally and unconstitutionally” housed foster children in hospitals and restrictive institutions beyond medical necessity.

Maryland’s state school board will decide in the coming months whether to give Mohammed Choudhury a new, four-year contract as superintendent when his ends on June 30, 2024.

The board is expected to pick a new leader for Baltimore County Public Schools as soon as Tuesday.

Two alleged abusers whose names were redacted in the Maryland Attorney General's report on child sexual abuse have been identified as Michael V. Scriber and the Rev. Joseph G. Fiorentino.

The Baltimore County school board has narrowed the superintendent search to four finalists.

After complaints by Republican legislators that the state education department was hiding failing test score data, Maryland's inspector general has concluded the state is following federal privacy laws and guidance.

Fallout begins over church sexual abuse report; one official, Monsignor Richard Woy, resigned from the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center’s board of directors.

The investigation identified three of the clergy members and one church official whose names were redacted from the report.

Reporters matched details in the Maryland attorney general's report into the Archdiocese of Baltimore to court transcripts, archdiocesan letters, church directories, news articles and other public documents.

The Maryland inspector general found that Baltimore City Public Schools paid as much as $631,000 over three years to a cab company for rides to school that students may never have taken.