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Sun profile: Andrés Alonso

Sun profile: Andrés Alonso

Urgency drives Andrés Alonso. He has been given uncommon power to reshape Baltimore's dysfunctional schools to make them work for,...

Brown vs. Board: 50 years later

Remembering the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that desegregated U.S. public schools

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Schools employee charged with stealing payroll checks

Police arrested a Baltimore public schools employee Friday and charged her with seven counts of stealing payroll checks. Latanya Bunch was...

City woman gets year for assault on son's teacher

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge sentenced the mother of a city elementary school student this weeek to one year in prison for a November...

Slain boy's mother to sue Arundel schools

A lawyer for the mother of Christopher Jones, the Crofton teen who died in an apparent eruption of suburban gang violence, has notified...

UM to acquire hospitals in Bel Air, Havre de Grace

In a deal designed to address doctor shortages and bring new medical services to Harford County, the University of Maryland Medical System...

Questions developed for school hopefuls

The Maryland State Board of Education has developed a series of questions it will ask city school board candidates about their backgrounds,...

Nurturing a love of math, sciences

Experts are becoming increasingly concerned that the U.S. doesn't produce enough science, technology, engineering and math teachers for...

School suspensions limited in Md.

Maryland public school officials can no longer suspend or expel students solely for being chronically late or absent under a new state law...

UM audit finds credit card misuse

A former employee of the University of Maryland University College improperly used a corporate credit card to purchase $8,800 in...

School officials gather in city for anti-bullying conference

The keynote speaker at a school law enforcement conference urged his colleagues Monday to develop ways to track and record bullying.

Hairston abolishes school post

After hiring and then losing two chief academic officers in as many years, Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joe A. Hairston is...

Why high school students drop out of school

Hundreds of Maryland educators gathered at a Baltimore County high school Monday with a singular focus: examining what drives students out...

Howard County students get set for summer programs

Some Howard County students are donning their director's caps and exploring the world of filmmaking over the next few weeks, proving that...

State panel to make public school board vetting process

The Maryland Board of Education plans to make public in the next week or so the process for vetting Baltimore school board candidates,...

Business, health leaders pledge $11M to 17 colleges

Maryland business and health industry leaders have pledged $11 million to 17 state colleges to help ease the state's nursing shortage, the...

Howard violin teacher accused of sexual assault

A 67-year-old Howard County violin instructor has been charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old female student over a two-month period...