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The president conflated an Algebra I test with “basic mathematics.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Benjamin Schmitt, president of the Howard County Education Association, says students with disabilities deserve fairness when it comes to educational funding priorities.

The number of teachers with a temporary license has skyrocketed in the last five years.

The layoffs are part of a global reduction of more than 2,000 employees.

As state leaders have come together behind four nominees to fill vacancies on the Howard Community College board, a bill that would aims to bring more transparency to the board has the support of the county's senators and delegates.

Baltimore students gave up their phones kicking and screaming, but now they report better grades and focus.

Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”

The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Friday that the school board’s $1.26 billion funding request is “unattainable and unaffordable.”

State legislators are now weighing whether to cut scholarship funds for students at private colleges by 50% for the second year in a row.

Maggie Domanowski is accused of using a “tone and manner that was perceived as uncivil and aggressive” during a Jan. 28 school board meeting.

The initial victory comes the same day the Department of Education said it would lay off more than 1,300 employees.

Department officials announced the cuts Tuesday, raising questions about the agency’s ability to continue usual operations.

Maryland’s House of Delegates voted along party lines to tweak the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education plan.

Like many other colleges last spring, Hopkins grappled with balancing free speech and campus safety after students organized a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

After firing six members, President Trump announced his nominees for the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors over the weekend.

Our Kids Read opened last month in the Eastpoint Mall.

Because I know the cost of not taking proactive care of myself during the worst of times, I’ve promised myself never to let that happen again. I’m now relentless in my self-soothing; if what I’m doing isn’t working, I adapt.

Gannon Sprinkle, a junior at the University of Maryland, hopes to "bridge the gap" between college students and long-term residents.