Liz Bowie

A 40-year-old man died Friday night after police found him in the 2500 block of Keyworth Avenue in north Baltimore suffering from gunshot wounds, according to police.

Two men were shot in the legs near the 200 West Fayette Street in downtown Baltimore on Friday night, according to Baltimore police.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Baltimore and charged with attempted murder in the shooting of two men this winter in the 500 block of N. Gay Street, according to Baltimore police.

Two members of a Cherry Hill gang were sentenced Friday on conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise that was involved in shootings and a murder, according to federal and local law enforcement agencies.

Mercy High School received the largest donation in its history, a $1 million donation from a Baltimore philanthropist, to help the private, Catholic school begin a new, rigorous academic program.

In a crowded math class at Owings Mills High School, students from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico strained to comprehend what their teacher was saying. They could barely understand the English words she used, much less figure out the equations she was having them solve. As the Baltimore region scrambles to educate the flow of refugees from war-torn countries and undocumented youths from Central America, schools such as Owing Mills are searching for the best ways to give them a

Rep. Andy Harris is encouraging local school districts to ignore Obama administration guidance requiring them to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that fit their gender identity — even as a growing number of schools in the state are already embracing the idea.

Despite protest from the head of the Baltimore Teachers Union, the city school system will move forward with issuing pink slips to central office and

The acting CEO of the city schools alerted city school employees in a letter Tuesday that school-based layoffs would be coming on May 31.

When the Baltimore school board revealed this month that it had secretly hired a new CEO, city and state officials were incensed that the panel had circumvented a process that would have given them and the public a say. But they have little recourse beyond airing their grievances.

Karen B. Salmon, who spent more than 30 years as an Eastern Shore educator, was chosen as Maryland state superintendent of schools, state leaders announced Tuesday.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz will provide $40 million more next year so that all but a handful of county schools will have central air-conditioning by the fall of 2018.

Educators have decried the increasing lack of respect their students seem to show adults and each other -- the talking back, the failure to treat others with kindness, the displays of bad manners.

The Baltimore school board used its private attorney to secretly hire a search firm when it quietly looked for a new CEO earlier this year, circumventing school system purchasing requirements, the board president acknowledged Friday.

The Baltimore County school board voted 10-2 Tuesday night to give Superintendent Dallas Dance a four-year contract with an annual salary of $287,000.

The Baltimore County school board is expected to vote on a new contract for Superintendent Dallas Dance, but one member is asking for a delay.

The Baltimore school board came under criticism Wednesday for embarking on a secretive selection process that left the public and key legislators unaware that a new schools chief was being hired.

Baltimore school officials have sent a crisis team to City Springs Elementary/Middle School to help students after the shooting of a 13-year-old student by police in the neighborhood.

The memory of the Baltimore's record breaking snowstorm may be dimming, but its aftermath is still effecting the region's students who stayed home for a week in January.

Over the next four years, Maryland will gradually raise the passing score on tough new math and English tests needed to graduate from a public high school.

In a crucial decision for high school students, the Maryland State School Board is expected to vote Tuesday on what will be a passing score on tough new tests required to earn a diploma.

At some high schools in Baltimore County, students have lived for more than a decade with cracking floors, bursting pipes, and cramped classrooms without air conditioning. Each year, the buildings would deteriorate a little more, and little would be done.

An Old Court Middle School science teacher was named Baltimore County Public School teacher of the year.

Some low-income Maryland parents will be able to enroll their children in private or parochial schools next fall using state-funded scholarships recently approved by lawmakers.

The Baltimore County school board will discuss an administrative reorganization and a proposal to change the name of a school at its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday.

A 17-year-old boy who had made threats at an area high school about two years ago was found wandering the halls of Hereford High School on Friday, according to the school system.

At Cecil Elementary School where bone dry water fountains stand next to full water coolers, several third graders who've never drunk from the fountains puzzled over why they didn't work.

Baltimore County police continue to investigate what caused a school bus carrying middle and high school students from Baltimore County to strike a pole and overturn on York Road near Gunpowder Falls, seriously injuring the driver.

A loaded gun was found at Calverton Elementary/Middle School in West Baltimore on Wednesday, according to school officials.

Baltimore school leadership, already under scrutiny, also faces a challenge from the top candidates for mayor — all of whom say they would seek a stronger role in managing the city's schools.

While publicly supporting its new schools chief last spring, the Baltimore city school board was privately expressing disappointment with Gregory Thornton, noting in written documents that he was a poor communicator and had provided no plan to improve flagging academics.

The Baltimore City school police are exploring whether to have their officers outfitted with body cameras as other local police departments have in recent months.

The school police officer seen on a video slapping and kicking a young man outside a Baltimore high school this week was fired by the city sheriff's department in 2003 and had a protective order filed against him by his girlfriend in 2011.

City schools officials are "vigorously" investigating a cellphone video that shows a uniformed officer slapping a young man, schools spokeswoman Edie House Foster said.

A West Baltimore teenager died Monday after being shot multiple times on a street corner less than two miles from his old high school, where counselors again prepared to provide grief counseling to students.

Less than two years into Gregory Thornton's tenure as city schools chief, some Baltimore civic and political leaders have lost faith in his ability to lead the school system — and some say it's time for him to go.

Maryland has led the nation in the percentage of high school seniors passing the rigorous Advanced Placement exams for the tenth consecutive year, according to the Maryland Department of Education.

The Baltimore City school board voted Tuesday night to give the Baltimore Montessori Charter Public School the right to reserve 10 percent of its seats for neighborhood students, half the number the school had sought.

Since most Maryland students didn't pass a tough new test that eventually will be required for graduation, should the state lower the bar? The state school board began considering the question Tuesday as members discussed options including setting a lower passing grade or offering a second-tier diploma for students who finish required high school courses but can't pass the PARCC test now used in a dozen states.

Maryland students taking the new statewide standardized test did better when they took the English tests on paper.

City school leaders will decide Tuesday whether to allow a charter school to take more students from its surrounding streets, even if it ultimately endangers the survival of a nearby elementary school.

Baltimore-area students may loose some of their summer or spring vacation days this year because they have spent so many days at home for snow.

Over the past year, the Baltimore County school system has dismantled the gifted program in elementary school, placing advanced children in classes with lower-achieving peers. Teachers are expected to teach at all levels by breaking students into groups according to ability.

Maryland's graduation rate at public high schools continued to rise slightly this year, to 87 percent, a significant gain in the past five years, according to data released by the state Friday.

Harford County school officials lifted the suspension on travel to Baltimore City Monday, saying they had new information from law enforcement officials and that trials of police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray had been postponed.

Harford County's decision to ban field trips to Baltimore City has sparked criticism from city leaders who see it as a misguided and ill-informed decision that only hurts the county's school children.

The Baltimore County school board voted Tuesday night to give its superintendent another four year contract.

Baltimore County's school board is expected to take a vote Tuesday on whether its ambitious, young superintendent should get another contract to continue the wide-ranging and sometimes bitterly fought changes he has instituted in the past several years.

Soon after her appointment to the Baltimore County school board, Ann Miller wanted to know how students and teachers were performing. She also wanted to know more about the district's finances and contracts it has signed with the superintendent and vendors. More than three months later, Miller said she still doesn't have answers.

Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday rescinded the "State of Emergency" in Maryland that was enacted on Jan. 22 in response to severe winter weather