Liz Bowie

The state school board signaled Tuesday that it will streamline decisions on granting or denying waivers to local boards of education that don't want to fall in behind Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order pushing the start of school until after Labor Day next year.

Howard County and Carroll County students scored better in nearly every grade and subject on Maryland's annual standardized tests — widening the gap between other Baltimore area school systems, which had mixed results.

Maryland education officials are expected to release data Tuesday morning showing how public school students did on the state’s annual standardized PARCC test.

Maryland's most recent class of graduating high school seniors scored lower on the SAT than any class in at least the past 20 years.

Baltimore County public school officials are seeking public participation in the process of redrawing attendance boundary lines for Cromwell Valley and Hampton elementary schools.

Baltimore City was one of 23 school districts around the nation chosen to participate in a White House conference on ensuring that girls of color do not face barriers in getting an education.

Maryland's 2016 graduates earned more than $1.3 billion in college scholarship offers, nearly equaling the amount for the class the year before, according to the results of a new state survey.

Maryland's school accountability system forces schools to focus on its lowest performing students while the high achievers are largely ignored, according to a report by a Washington think tank.

Maryland's Attorney General believes Gov. Larry Hogan may have exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order earlier this month saying public schools must start after Labor Day.

The Baltimore County public school system is offering parents of prekindergarten children free, 90-minute workshops designed to help them teach their children to read and write.

A state school construction panel will decide Thursday whether to grant Baltimore County a waiver allowing it to speed installation of central air-conditioning in 12 schools by the start of next school year.

As schools in Baltimore City and County close for a second day in a row for heat, concerns that students are missing important class time and athletic practices is growing.

His first poem, written in second grade during a particularly uneventful keyboarding class, was about the raindrops just outside the window.

Several of Maryland's school districts outside of Baltimore have above average rates of students who are chronically absent, according to a report released Tuesday.

The mother of five, Linda Hurka, has always taken an interest in her children's school work, but she was never one of those mothers that had time to lead the PTA or advocate for an educational cause.

Anne Arundel and Baltimore County school systems will consider shortening spring break in order to meet the requirements of Gov. Larry Hogan's new executive order to start school after Labor Day.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order forcing public schools to squeeze their 180 days of class time between Labor Day and June 15 will not apply to private schools.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot plan to make an announcement about the start date for public schools this afternoon, and they'll likely launch a political fight.

Carol Williamson, the former superintendent of Queen Anne's County Public Schools, has been hired for the job of Maryland's deputy state superintendent for teaching and learning.

The Baltimore County school board voted Tuesday night to modify the policy that has required officials to close schools for extreme heat on two of the first five days of the school year.

The Maryland State Department of Education announced seven finalists for state Teacher of the Year on Tuesday morning.

The Baltimore County school board will consider changing its policy of closing non air-conditioned schools at its board meeting on Tuesday.

The driver of a motorcycle died after a crash on Friday evening at the intersection of Hillen Road and E. 35th Street, according to Baltimore Police

Baltimore City police have arrested one suspect and identified another in the sexual assault of two women a week ago in West Baltimore.

A bicyclist died in a crash with a pickup truck in Upperco in Baltimore County Friday afternoon, according to Baltimore County police.

Baltimore County will close 37 schools without air-conditioning on Friday and perhaps early next week under a recently adopted policy requiring those schools shut when the heat index is forecast to reach at least 90 degrees.

Baltimore County school board leaders will continue to study the issue of when schools should close for religious holidays, even after it decided in an emotional and close vote Tuesday night not to close for the Muslim holidays.

A move to close schools in Baltimore County for Muslim holidays failed by one vote at the school board Tuesday night.

Maryland students improved their performance in math on the annual statewide tests given in grades three through eight last spring.

Maryland is expected to delay the development of a new middle social studies test for at least a year, to allow for a review of local testing.

Kristyn Ferguson is looking forward to the start of the school year, but she's worried. She is a 2013 college graduate who has never taught in a public school. She's unsure what to expect, and — perhaps more importantly — she's uncertain about exactly what is expected of her.

If you don't label the smartest kids "gifted and talented," will they still get the education they deserve?

 U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, speaking to urban leaders in Baltimore Thursday, encouraged them to be vocal advocates for changes in education that

Three teenagers broke into and vandalized Violetville Elementary and Middle School Wednesday evening, according to school officials.

With just a few weeks before school opens, Baltimore city and county school systems still have several hundred vacancies for teachers.

Andrew Smarick, who has worked for years in education policy jobs on the national and state level, was elected as president of the Maryland State Department of

State and local spending on prisons and jails in Maryland has grown twice as fast over three decades as spending on elementary and secondary education, according to a recently released report by the U.S. Department of Education.

FreeState Justice has filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against an Eastern Shore school system, saying it has failed to provide a 14-year-old transgender boy to use locker rooms consistent with his gender identity.

The push for less testing in Maryland public schools is being taken to the next level – the local level.

Open Works will debut a mobile makerspace to help city school children learn how to design and fabricate things on Tuesday at its headquarters on Greenmount

Thousands of high school seniors across Maryland will be required this fall to do remedial work in math and English — even if they've passed those classes their entire student career — because they are not considered ready for college.

Marquis Perry had a 1.1 GPA at Franklin High School and felt his teachers didn't understand his gifts.

The Baltimore school system serves children who come from neighborhoods with some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the state, so logic might dictate that it would get the highest amount for each low-income child in the city. But it doesn't.

A legislative audit has found that the Maryland State Department of Education did not ensure that child care facility employees had gone through background checks as required by state law.

Biting into a yummy local peach or chomping down on fresh steamed corn is a treat of summer that doesn't usually crop up in a school cafeteria.

In an attempt to stop the closing of three schools, Carroll County parents and students argued Tuesday before Maryland state school board that the decision by their local board was arbitrary and poor education policy.

The Baltimore County school board will meet in emergency session on Monday afternoon to vote on a new location for students from the Rosedale Center, an alternative school.

Montre Simpson Jr., a strong-willed rising sixth-grader already showing a penchant for science, has already begun collecting living things. He has a fish, a hermit crab, a frog, a snail and a puppy he shares with his siblings. He'd like some guinea pigs, but hasn't talked his mother into letting him get them yet.

After more than a decade of advocacy by the Muslim community, the Baltimore County school board appears poised to vote on whether to designate two Muslim holy days as school holidays.

The Harford County school board decided Monday to double the fees it charges students to participate in after school activities, one of the few counties in the state to collect these fees.