K-12 schools

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

A group of parents in Howard County are objecting to the Board of Education’s new student transportation policy, saying it is not safe or equitable.

The evaluations will determine whether children are being taught to read in a way that’s backed by research.

The school board voted 5-3 on Wednesday night to approve a plan for new school boundaries. It will result in a change of schools for approximately 6,400 students at some point in the educational process.

Stretches of Orleans Street block pedestrian access and are a threat to neighborhood children, Fatima Wilkerson, a Southeast Baltimore resident and community activist, says.

The Anne Arundel County Board of Education will vote on a redistricting plan for the northern half of the county on Wednesday, wrapping up the first half of a two-part process.

Two high school students were robbed in separate incidents as they walked home from school earlier this week, Howard County Police said.

The millions planned for Harborplace redevelopment will do nothing to address Baltimore’s greatest needs, says Krystal Gonzalez, whose daughter was shot and killed at a Baltimore-area block party.

Two students and a teacher were injured in a fight involving a knife at the Academy for College and Career Exploration Thursday morning.

Journalist Susan McInerney examines her decision to remain committed to her Catholic faith despite being devastated by revelations of sexual misconduct within the church as an institution.

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

Black teachers leave Maryland schools at higher rates than any other group. We want to hear why.

Edgewood High School staff found a loaded firearm in a student’s locker on Friday, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

School system confirms the victims were students and their families had been notified.

A school bus taking students to Vincent Farm Elementary School was involved in a crash in White Marsh.

A teenager was injured in a shooting at a playground at Edmondson Heights Elementary School in Woodlawn just after most students were released.

Baltimore City school officials say they want to overhaul a merit-based salary scale that was considered a groundbreaking approach to teacher pay when it was adopted more than a decade ago.

The acting police chief for Baltimore City Public Schools, then a major, approved Lawrence Smith’s fraudulent overtime, the court documents say, raising serious questions about supervision and policies.

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

Several school leaders said they used data to target help for struggling students.