Liz Bowie

Maryland's state school board rolled back the implementation of tougher passing standards on high school English and math exams required for graduation. The higher standard now won't go into effect until 2024 when this year's sixth graders would graduate.

Trinity Lutheran Christian School in Joppa will not get any more scholarship money this year after a state panel noted discriminatory policies in a school handbook.

The 25-person commission was formed to

At a time when the country has been divided by a series of controversies, educators across the region say they feel compelled to show students a different path.

The county has had the Jewish high holidays off since the 1990s.

13 Maryland schools awarded National Blue Ribbon status

Some parents expressed concern that a former Baltimore County school superintendent is being investigated in connection with his relationship with a company that did business with the school system.

Prosecutors looking into Dallas Dance's relationship with a company that did business with the school system.

Renee Foose, whose tumultuous tenure as Howard County school superintendent ended in May, said Wednesday she has declined to take a position with the Maryland State Department of Education.

Renee Foose is expected to be hired by the state school board at a salary over $92,000.

Governor says he won't sign Maryland education plan

A coalition of Maryland superintendents representing large school districts is asking Gov. Larry Hogan and other elected leaders to protect the rights of undocumented students and their families.

Baltimore County man charged with murder in roommate's strangling

Gordon May joined the community college as president in 2014.

Officials kicked off the school day at Frederick Elementary School.

Baltimore City schools CEO Sonja Santelises said she would have preferred to have students back in school before Labor Day.

City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises is putting a renewed emphasis on teaching history, science, music and art this year.

State announces $400,000 judgment against Sojourner-Douglass College.

When students walk onto the Baltimore City Community College campus for the first day of classes Monday, they will find an institution under fierce pressure to change.

Pugh's plan for free community college met with applause from educators, City Council

An academic summer program helps give Baltimore kids a headstart on school year.

NAACP calls for end to for-profit charter schools

Public school teachers and parents have railed for years against the time and attention devoted to testing.

Baltimore City school officials are taking steps to bring safe municipal water back to schools a decade after lead contamination caused them to ban the use of drinking fountains.

Attorneys General in 18 states, including Maryland, have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos in an attempt to keep in

Maryland's school board decided on a five-star system to rate its schools last week, but many of the details still have to be worked out.

Superintendent Dallas Dance leaves his job in Baltimore County at the end of the day on Friday, with no announcement yet about where he may be working full time in the future.

For the first time next school year, every Maryland school will receive a rating under a system the state school board is expected to vote on Tuesday morning.

Next school year hundreds of area immigrant students will be put back in English language classes after state educcation officials raised the bar on what it is to be proficient in English.

Gov. Larry Hogan has appointed four new state school board members, whose stated support for school charters and more stringent academic accountability

Baltimore County's interim school superintendent will be paid $265,000 in the next year, which slightly less than her predecessor.

The Baltimore County school board voted Tuesday night on a compromise redistricting plan for eight elementary schools on the east side that balances opposing

For Jimi Beaudet and others in the small Middle River enclave of Aero Acres, the redrawing of the school boundary lines has become a fight for the heart of

The interim head of Baltimore County schools said she hopes the tensions that regularly erupt between school board members will subside as she takes over in

Anthony Lloyd is about to get his high school diploma. But when the 18-year-old Baltimore student walks across the stage Friday for the Bard High School Early College graduation ceremony, he'll also pick up another piece of paper that he figures could save him thousands of dollars: An associate's degree.

New interim superintendent says she wants the permanent job

Baltimore County's school board could vote as early as tonight on an interim superintendent to replace Dallas Dance, who is leaving at the end of June.

Gov. Larry Hogan's appointment of a former Republican Baltimore County executive to the school board is drawing intense criticism from county leaders who say it leaves the board with only two minority members.

As City Council members consider ways to divert more money to Baltimore schools, district officials said Tuesday it's too late to prevent layoffs for as many as 300 teachers and administrators.

Roger Hayden, a former county executive, has been named to the Baltimore County school board.

After 14 months of negotiations, Baltimore's school board and teachers union are at an impass in negotiations and have asked that a mediator take over.

Unlike Howard County's school superintendent who walked away from her job with $1.65 million last week, Baltimore County's superintendent is leaving on June 30 with just what he is owed this year in his contract.

Baltimore County's school board is accepting applications through today for candidates interested in being interim superintendent, a job that became open with the resignation of Dallas Dance last month.

An innovative union contract designed to tie pay to performance has given Baltimore City's teachers some of the best salaries in the state, but it is also expensive for the system.

Abbottston Elementary School is so small that when a boy who misbehaved in the cafeteria this month was sent to the office, the person who kept a watchful eye

Two Maryland students have been named U.S. Presidential Scholars, a prestigious award given to only 161 high school seniors in the nation each year based on their accomplishments.

Baltimore Schools chief Sonja Santelises made a surprise visit to a Roland Park Elementary School classroom this afternoon to hand out an award to math and science teacher Justin Holbrook.

Howard County's acting schools superintendent, Michael J. Martirano, is returning to his roots as he takes his dream job leading the high-performing school system.

Police were searching Friday afternoon for an inmate who escaped from the parking lot of a Maryland mental hospital after freeing himself from handcuffs and a

Governor Larry Hogan has appointed Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge Patrick L. Woodward to be chief judge of the court beginning May 6.