K-12 schools

The $1.13 billion budget released by Acting Superintendent Bill Barnes in January called for eliminating roughly 350 positions across the district. But when school board members gathered for their final budget work session on Feb. 29, they reduced that potential figure to about 180 positions.

The project will transform the 24,000-square-foot station into six squash courts that will host tournament play, dedicated workspace for students and room to expand.

An introductory Q&A with 10 of the 11 candidates who have filed to run for the Howard County Board of Education.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday to uphold how the student member of the school board is selected.

Glitches in a new system designed to make school choice run more smoothly in Baltimore City backfired for 200 students.

The school board approved the funding plan after an uneasy budget season.

The conservative parents’ group Moms for Liberty was met by a flood of protesters at a Columbia library meeting room Monday.

The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future is doing what it was designed to do: redistribute money to the students who have the greatest needs.

The early start times now mandated for Baltimore public school students can be a factor in poor performance and lead to detrimental health outcomes, say two Loyola college students who experienced early start times and long trips to school as Baltimore public school students.

The school board will vote in March on plans to redistribute thousands of students among 25 elementary schools.

The investments in elementary schools Myriam Rogers has proposed will come with trade-offs.

Legislation in Congress would make internet access available to more people in Baltimore, throughout Maryland and elsewhere, Rep. Kweisi Mfume and the director of the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition say.

The conservative parents group is enlisting the help of the “mastermind” behind a book-ban campaign in Carroll County schools.

More than 200 people have signed a letter to The Park School of Baltimore condemning the decision to abruptly cancel an assembly about the war between Israel and Hamas.

Four students were taken to the hospital to be evaluated for injuries on Thursday after a bus skidded off the road in Columbia and turned on its side in a field.

The Oakland Mills High School community is demanding that long-overdue repairs happen now after flooding shut down the school Monday.

The silence in February is unusual.

Most of the jobs on the chopping block are vacant, but school system leaders want to give proper notice to the few who will be reassigned.

It is the middle of winter, but many parents are already thinking about summer because it’s camp sign-up time. One Banner reporter and mother of three talks about the stresses of signing up.

The continuing impact of COVID-19 and other illnesses is an important factor in persistently high absenteeism at Maryland’s schools, a children’s health advocate says.