K-12 schools

It’s going to be messy.

If approved, a redistricting plan would increase the portion of students living in poverty at a Columbia elementary school.

Montgomery County public high schools will hold graduation ceremonies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s campus in May and June of the coming year, the school system announced.

The author of the illustrated novel “Flamer” spoke to a crowd in Harford County on Tuesday after his book was banned by the county’s Board of Education earlier this year.

Somerset County’s school board accused its superintendent of insubordination. She said the board chair threatened her before she left town.

Baltimore County Police charged an 18-year-old with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Lansdowne High School student earlier this year.

Montgomery County Council members will pepper MCPS leaders with questions about a plan to divide high schools into six regions, each with a slate of parallel academic pathways.

Seven students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a crash involving a school bus Monday morning in Woodlawn, the Baltimore County Fire Department said.

A bumpy transition to a new payroll system has Baltimore County Public Schools staff on edge.

Zūm School Bus Services drivers, who handle roughly a third of the Howard County Public School System’s routes, authorized a strike Thursday.

The Howard County Public School System canceled its free flu and COVID vaccine clinics due to a lack of grant funding.

Maryland had ended its program after the 2019-2020 school year but will now resurrect it.

The board’s decision came after two meetings in which a parent was escorted out of the room after forcefully questioning the board and raising his voice.

Big changes are in store for Montgomery County’s public high schools — new boundaries and a very different approach to specialized programs.

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements agents Friday morning.

Baltimore County Public Schools cut more than 400 positions last school year, with most coming from inside the schools. But the system has offered few specifics.

Parents and staffers told the school board that intolerable campus conditions are causing illness and interrupting learning.

Howard County Schools Superintendent Bill Barnes released a widely anticipated redistricting plan that tackles overcrowding at one elementary school but stops short of addressing swelling enrollment at another.

Before Bill Barnes, Howard County’s schools superintendent, presents his redistricting proposal to the county Board of Education on Sept. 25, here’s a refresher on the redistricting process.

Montgomery County leaders celebrated a $10 million investment to expand Head Start services to children 3 and younger, as well as to provide financial support for community child-care providers.