K-12 schools

As deportation efforts and anti-immigrant rhetoric ramp up, kids are feeling more isolated, losing benefits and risking long-term detriments.

Maryland's schools leader says they could withhold funding or seek to remove school board members if Somerset County tries to oust its superintendent.

Author Saundra Mitchell, 51, has been fighting back against book restrictions — in protests at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and in the pages of her stories.

Board President Josh Michael, a former math teacher, said he expects the standards to foster deeper learning and greater equity across the state’s classrooms.

Baltimore City Public Schools, the complaint says, knew its schools were hostile places for Jewish students.

After a MAGA-aligned majority took control of Somerset County's school board, they tried to get rid of librarians and fire the superintendent. The community pushed back.

Spending cuts may be aimed at adults on paper, but kids could still end up without sufficient food and health care under the One Big Beautiful Bill.

In an email Wednesday, the Baltimore City school system apologized to the community after the pornographic interruption.

The raise is less than what teachers initially bargained for, but a reprieve for the more than 9,000 educators represented by the union.

Redistricting may be necessary as Anne Arundel County grows and school enrollment swells, but few experiences are more agonizing for parents.

Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School was approved by the board, but does not yet have a charter agreement to open in Baltimore County.

Tuesday night’s livestream of the Baltimore City school board meeting was ended after a major disruption.

Harford County parents and teachers spoke out against the school board’s decision to ban an award-winning illustrated novel from its libraries.

Young people discover confidence, purpose and opportunity through creative programs that government funding rarely prioritizes.

Only five elementary schools offer band or orchestra classes. Starting next fall, the district will hire one instrumental music teacher to work between two schools in a pilot model.

Vice Adm. Yvette Davids is out as superintendent of the Naval Academy. The surprise isn't that she's leaving but that an administration invested in ideological purity didn't get her before now.

The Howard County Public Schools needs to relieve overcrowding at two elementary schools — Bryant Woods in Columbia and Centennial Lane in Ellicott City. Doing so could affect attendance zones in as many as 11 of the county’s 78 schools starting in fall 2026.

Baltimore high school students are less likely to pick a school — even the city’s best — if they face a long trip on Maryland’s unreliable transit system.

The U.S. Department of Education froze over $110 million for Maryland, including $11 million for Baltimore. Maryland’s Attorney General is suing to get it back.

To better understand how Baltimore County schools arrived at this impasse, The Banner reviewed the public records for each year leading to this point, including a comparison of how raises have been handled.