K-12 schools

Baltimore City desperately needs teachers, but the hiring process is frustrating to prospective educators, some of whom say they are leaving the city for the county.

Both the superintendent and county executive stood united at West Towson Elementary Tuesday afternoon after being on different pages in previous conversations over the school system’s spending plan.

Pine Grove Elementary School was evacuated after an explosive device was found in a car in the parking lot on Tuesday, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident.

Some are now being asked to pay back as much as tens of thousands of dollars.

Whether activists and politicians want to admit it, public buildings are not the place for affirming the sexuality of students, teachers, or anybody else.

Three Baltimore County Public School students were arrested after two guns were found on high school campuses.

To fulfill the teachers union contract, the system would need to scrounge up millions for its $1.7 billion operating budget to sustain the higher pay over the next five years.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools is relying on staffing agencies to help with its vacancies. Although working with contractors was not a new concept, teachers were in uproar because contracted teachers were making sometimes double what they were.

In town filming the Apple TV+ miniseries “Lady in the Lake,” Ingram told students about the hardships she faced and lessons she learned to become a successful actor.

The name of the student-athlete as well as the circumstances surrounding the death remain unknown at this time.

A Fund for Educational Excellence survey of more than 400 teachers shows about half of Baltimore City school teachers are satisfied with their jobs and are motivated to stay because of the obligation they feel for their students. On the other hand, nearly a quarter said they weren't sure they would return after this school year, and they cited paperwork and student behavior as two reasons.

Teenagers shouldn’t need to bury one another. Yet when they do, they handle each other with such tender care.

Nearly two dozen officers each earned more than $100,000 in hourly pay and overtime combined from October 2020-October 2021 by staffing Orioles and Ravens games and working at city pools and after-school events.

The smiling faces of students, teachers and staff reflected the joy of being back to school, with fewer of the masks, protocols and fears that marked the first two years of the pandemic.

Days before Monday’s classroom return, parents said pickup times that the system sent are scheduled after, or close to, the times that school starts. They are also still haunted by last year’s issues that resulted in bus driver no-shows or late drop-offs.

Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.

Maryland’s student school board members have become increasingly vocal about the limits on their voting authority, lobbying for more voting rights.

Teaching is an exhausting honor. Summers off ensure I can do it over and over again.

Parents often welcome the start of public school because, unlike summer camp and childcare, they don't have to pay for it. But don't celebrate just yet.

Baltimore County Public School students will return to the classroom in the coming weeks with fewer COVID-19 restrictions on the books but other school districts are keeping mask requirements.