K-12 schools

On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.

Books such as “Gender Queer” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” have become flash points in school board races nationwide, including in Maryland.

The Baltimore City school board goes back to in-person meetings, two-and-a-half years after the pandemic shut them down. But only five seats will be available for members of the general public.

A state senator and a left-leaning PAC have taken aim at candidates Maggie Litz Domanowski and Rebecca Chesner, while GOP elected officials have lent their support to candidates with conservative views on the teaching of race and gender.

A recent survey by the Capital News Service found that 34 school board candidates across the state cited school resource officers as the key to school safety.

Here’s a look at how schools throughout the state will address culturally and ethnically insensitive costumes this Halloween.

The guard stepped into the street to prepare the children to cross before a motorist hit her, sources say.

Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School, Carver Vocational Technical High School and Digital Harbor High School were selected for the launch.

Baltimore City scores dropped dramatically, but eighth graders did not lose as much ground during the pandemic on either math or reading tests as students across the state did.

Responding to criticism, Superintendent Darryl Williams said “there is a narrative in the community that we are not holding students accountable for their behaviors. That simply is not true.”

Our public education system cannot sustain this amount of stress. It scares me to imagine the catastrophes that might be ahead.

Of some 102 Maryland school board candidates who responded to a survey on education issues, 16 named learning loss stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic as the key issue facing schools in their districts, while another 16 cited other academic performance issues as most important.

School bus delays in Baltimore County have improved since the start of school. The deputy superintendent told school board members on Tuesday of the work her staff have done to make sure more kids are picked up on time. But it isn’t perfect. Delays still persist and the director of transportation role has been vacant since August.

The county has four contested races on the Nov. 8 ballot, while three candidates are running unopposed. Meanwhile the terms of four appointed members on the 11-member board are expiring later this year.

The school board is now all appointed, but city voters next month will get their first chance to elect school board members.

The Baltimore School for the Arts is trying to identify and discipline the person who is scrawling graffiti defined as hate speech on the boys bathroom walls.

Berol Dewdney, a nine-year veteran teacher at The Commodore John Rodgers School in East Baltimore, was chosen for the award from a field of seven finalists and will go on to compete for national Teacher of the Year honors.

Howard County police found no evidence of danger to students at Howard County's River Hill High School after a threat was called in shortly before 2 p.m.

Students are now being excluded from schools for failure to get childhood vaccinations, even though free vaccine appointments are hard to find for uninsured families.

Making school lunches happen is a feat of coordination and heart.