The five Dunbar High School students who suddenly became ill on Monday had ingested marijuana, according to Baltimore City Public Schools.

Two of the three students taken to a hospital had been released by Monday evening, school officials said. Two other students had been taken home by their parents.

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

Employees of Zūm, the company that assumed half of Howard County’s school bus routes, are seeking union representation.

After 35 years as an education reporter, Tooten is leaving journalism, but he’ll continue as a pastor and adjunct professor.

After shootings at Morgan State University and Bowie State University, campuses are adding safety measures. Shootings at HBCUs most often happen in October.

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

Carey Wright will take over the lead role at the Maryland State Department of Education later this month.

Mohammed Choudhury had previously announced he would not seek a new four-year contract.

Mohammed Choudhury, who had previously fought to save his job, has told the state school board he does not want a four-year contract beginning next July.

High schoolers in Howard County will get a bit less sleep after Sept. 20.

The bus contractor that abruptly canceled the routes will offer $8,000 signing bonuses to attract new drivers, the Howard County schools superintendent said Thursday.

Zūm, a California-based school bus contractor that just took over about half of the district's routes, said it could not cover 20 routes for the rest of the week. And parents have reported widespread problems with buses arriving nearly an hour late or not at all.

So many school buses showed up late, or didn’t show up at all, that Howard County schools Superintendent Michael Martirano apologized to families in an email.

The schools affectionately known as City, Western, Poly and Douglass are next in line for renovations. But the city school system doesn’t have the funds to match what parents and alumni want.

Baltimore County high school students living within 1.7 miles of their schools may have to walk this year.

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.