K-12 schools

A 12-old-boy brought a gun to school the other day. Anne Arundel police don’t like that reforms passed last year prevented them from hauling this kid away in handcuffs.

County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. called the proposed budget “unrealistic,” while Superintendent Darryl Williams said it’s still early in the budget process.

A stabbing at Lansdowne High School on Tuesday afternoon is under investigation.

It's been a half century since Liz Murphy and Linda Malat Tiburzi were raped and tortured by their teacher at the Catholic Community Middle School in South Baltimore. Yet their quest for justice is not over.

Two people were shot near Benjamin Franklin High School in Curtis Bay

The debate follows the prior school board’s efforts to dump an auditor who questioned its practices.

Andrea Barr accused board members of retaliation and unlawfully voting not to renew her contract.

More Maryland districts eye remote learning as an alternative to bad weather-days that can cut into spring break or extend the school year.

Maryland students selected as Young Arts finalists have an array of talents, from songwriting and singing to dance and writing.

Sometimes even when teachers care deeply, it's hard to find time to connect with students.

The NAACP and the ACLU’s Legal Defense Fund argue that despite the findings of courts over the years, the state has never funded Baltimore City schools at a level that would provide students with an appropriate education as required under the Maryland constitution.

The school board’s new chair and vice chair, Jane Lichter and Robin Harvey, seem eager to set a more collaborative tone at board meetings. But both said it was too early to say whether Superintendent Darryl Williams’ contract should be renewed next year.

Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

Police believe a juvenile in North Carolina was also involved in the series of threats that have rattled the community.

”We have given Baltimore City Public Schools a chance to do right by this family, and they have not,” said Gadeir Abbas, a senior litigation attorney at CAIR.

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The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

Although Baltimore County Police have said the threats are unsubstantiated, their announcements of increased police presence and an unfinished investigation haven’t been much comfort.

Lichter succeeds Julie Henn as chair, while Harvey replaces Rod McMillion as vice chair. The two new leaders both had the backing of the teachers union in the Nov. 8 election.

Maryland students had mixed results on statewide, standardized tests given last spring.