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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.

USNI News is reporting that Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, who has served as Naval Academy superintendent since January 2024, is being reassigned. Davids is the first Latina and first woman to hold the post.

America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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.

Ten months later, the probe into the research work of University of Maryland President Darryll Pines is still ongoing.

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.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

More than 20 states, including Maryland, sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more.

The board is expected to be interviewing candidates this fall with a new CEO hired by April.

After the Trump administration launched a broadside attack against the way the federal government has funded major research universities across the country, Hopkins has been forced to wage a campaign of its own.

Maryland could see an explosion of school voucher funding for students to attend schools now that President Donald Trump’s tax and policy bill passed.

The Trump administration's hostile policies toward international students could be disastrous for Maryland and, in particular, Baltimore.

Despite rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, Frostburg State is working to expand a program where it educates Chinese students thousands of miles away.

How a camper, Isaiah Magruder, turned counselor hopes to support kids at Camp St. Vincent in Baltimore this summer.

Superintendent Mark Bedell said said his proposal is informed by the spirited, sometimes charged, meetings the district held this spring in the South County.

Shuffling preschool classrooms doesn't fit in with Howard County's plan to expand pre-K access for high-need kids

It’s unclear when, and even if, that money will get distributed to organizations that support low-income families in after-school and summer programs they otherwise couldn’t afford.

Saving money, damages to devices and concerns from the community were reasons why some Baltimore County Public Schools students won't get laptops next year.

The policy marks a significant shift from the school system’s approach to technology being widely available and equitable, even at home.