K-12 schools

Over 100 educators came from overseas to hone their craft and share their cultures in Baltimore City schools this year.

Entrance and exit points to school board meetings have been limited, and only the media can use professional recording equipment.

Joppatowne High School students are expected to return to the classroom on Thursday following an emotional week after a teen was killed in a shooting inside the school.

School lockdowns happen all the time but one reporter almost ignored the text messages from her daughter: “Mom. Something is happening.”

The school’s principal and resource officer heard a commotion in the first-floor men’s bathroom, but did not hear the shot.

As many as 120 Yorkwood Elementary School students could be pushed out of their community, with devastating consequences to their school.

Maryland’s education watchdog says former Maryland Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury and his administration used an encrypted messaging app to discuss state business.

Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.

The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.

Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, worked at the private, independent all-boys school in Roland Park from 2007 to 2023.

The school board “was made aware of a potentially unsafe situation in the boardroom,” according to a statement from the school system.

You can explore your test scores at your local school, or at any school in Maryland, on our searchable tables.

Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.

All county school buses will be outfitted with high-definition cameras to catch drivers who don’t stop while children are being dropped off or picked up.

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.

Howard County Superintendent Bill Barnes isn’t like his predecessor. Many say he is the right person for the job.

Matthew Jochmans, a teacher at Towson High School, is remembered for his sense of humor, intelligence and love for people.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

The latest version of Maryland State Department of Education’s literacy policy gives parents a right to challenge a decision to hold their child back.

“One thing about Leslie, he was not a downer. He was one that was really excited,” Elder Gregory Johnson said. “And so, while we are here in his remembrance, we know he has left such a great legacy in his life of just 16 years.”