Liz Bowie

As nearly every public school student knows by now the snow bound days in winter aren't really free. They must be paid back in days in classrooms in June, often when everyone is feeling ready to be finished and outside in the backyard - or really anywhere – but at a school desk.

A snow drift atop Parkville Middle School caused a partial roof collapse Monday night, Baltimore County fire officials said.

Baltimore County school board member Ann Miller has filed a formal request last week under public information law for detailed information about the school system's performance before she takes a vote on whether to renew the superintendent's contract.

A Baltimore City school teacher is in critical condition after being shot outside a Queens hotel as she tried to defend her daughter from robbers.

In an attempt to speed efforts to provide air conditioning to all schools in Baltimore County, the school board voted Tuesday night to put an additional $10 million in next year's operating budget.

The woman who had organized the event on Monday came down with the flu and couldn't make it, and the church kitchen was under renovation, with one wall torn down to the old brick. But that didn't matter for this band of about 20 people, who cooked a meal for recovering addicts on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Baltimore County school Superintendent Dallas Dance, who has asked that his contract be renewed, denied reports Tuesday that he has applied to be the next superintendent in Montgomery County.

A state of unease approaching panic has set in for Central Americans living in the country illegally after the Obama administration announced this month it is targeting recent border crossers under a stepped up enforcement effort.

Superintendent Dallas Dance is slowing the purchase of laptops for middle schools. While he's pleased with what he's seeing in elementary grades, he believes middle school teachers need more time to change their entire approach to take advantage of the technology.

Baltimore County school superintendent Dallas Dance is slowing down the rollout of his signature technology initiative next school year, although the program would continue to grow under a $1.5 billion budget presented to the school board Tuesday night.

Since the publication of Unsettled Journeys, a series about the struggles of teenage immigrants at Patterson going to school and trying to make a new life in America, readers have sent in $7,200 in checks and pledges. The donations were generally between $25 and $100, but one was as high as $1,200. One member of the community said she was on a very limited budget, but she wanted to give what she could. She enclosed $15.

A state task force is looking at ways to improve the education of immigrant students. It is weighing several options, including expanding teacher training and creating a central repository of resources for teachers. Officials are also working to come up with less punitive ways to hold schools accountable for achievement of newly arrived students.

Less than half of Maryland elementary and middle school students can pass the tough new standardized tests, a result school officials attribute to an upheaval in teaching in the past several years.

Approximately half of Howard County students passed new state English assessments administered to grades 3 through 8 last spring, according to results released by the Maryland Department of Education on Tuesday. County scores were worse on the mathematics assessments, which more than half of fourth through eighth graders failed.

Gregory Mongo worked two jobs to buy a house with his girlfriend in Oliver. He grew up in the East Baltimore neighborhood, and coached basketball there in youth mentoring program.

Baltimore Police on Friday announced it has charged 21-year-old man in a Nov. 9 fatal shooting in Northwest Baltimore

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, the county teachers' union and an immigrant rights group are asking Gov. Larry Hogan to reconsider appointing Ann Miller to the local school board, citing the conservative views she espouses as a blogger.

Baltimore County school officials are evacuating students from Westchester Elementary School for a suspected gas leak.

After years of research and the help of legislators and the advocacy group CASA de Maryland, Prince George's County launched a model they think will work: two immigrant-only high schools. Across the nation, more than 20 of these schools have been created to give immigrants a better chance of getting through high school — and ultimately, making it to college and landing good jobs.

Maryland will launch a nationally recognized program that blends high school, college and work experience at four high schools in the state, including two in Baltimore City.

The deadly terror attacks in Paris sparked a heated political debate in the U.S. on Monday as policymakers sparred over President Barack Obama's plan to settle thousands more Syrian refugees in the country.

With only weeks left to make a decision on whether to give Superintendent Dallas Dance a new contract, some members of the Baltimore County school board are not saying whether he should continue as the head of one of Maryland's largest and most diverse school systems.

Maryland educators and legislators said better approaches to teaching and more services for those suffering from trauma are need for immigrant students now struggling to get an education and adjust to the United States.

Travesías inciertas: adolescentes centroamericanos que arribaron a Baltimore deben lidiar con limbo jurídico y angustia

Statewide scores released Thursday that reflect Maryland students' knowledge of Algebra I might have parents questioning why high school math scores are so low — especially when middle school scores were generally higher. High schools across Maryland — even those generally known as high performers — had lackluster or poor results on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test. But some middle schools that feed into high schools showed test

Illiterate teenage immigrants struggle in Baltimore high school. The Sun outlines their story in Part 3 of the Unsettled Journeys series.

Most of the Baltimore region's high school students aren't on track to be ready for college courses or jobs when they graduate, based on the first round of scores on new state tests.

Central American teens who landed in Baltimore find legal limbo and heartbreak. The Sun outlines their story in Part 2 of the Unsettled Journeys series.

Every evening as she got ready for bed, Narmin Al Eethawi knew that when sleep came, so would the nightmare. A woman would appear, dressed in black robes, her

Maryland's performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress assessment — also known as the "Nation's Report Card" — put Maryland student achievement in the middle of the pack of states nationwide.

State and local education officials struggled Wednesday to explain historic declines on national math and reading in the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam, after Maryland became the first state ever to record significant, across-the-board drops.

Maryland released the first results of statewide high school exams and the results are striking – more than half of students couldn't meet the standards for the 10th-grade English test and two-thirds fell below the mark for Algebra I.

Maryland education officials are set to release the first round of results from the new statewide high school tests Tuesday morning.

Ryan Kaiser, social studies teacher at the Mount Washington School, was named the Maryland Teacher of the Year on Friday night.

Baltimore Police are investigating a shooting in the 5400 block of Reisterstown Road

Eight Maryland schools, two parochial and six public, were named 2015 National Blue Ribbon Schools Tuesday.

A 61-year-old Orchard Beach man pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and bribery for paying a cash bribe to the operators of a scale at the Quarantine Road Landfill to avoid paying the dumping fees, according to the U.S. District Attorney's office.

Towson University hosts a memorial service Friday celebrating the life of the late university president, Maravene Loeschke, who died of cancer in June.

Baltimore city and county schools will close early Wednesday as temperatures reach into the 90s.

The SAT scores of Maryland's graduating seniors declined this year for the third year in a row, and remain below the national average.

Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance requested a new contract from the school board at its regular meeting on Tuesday night.

Maryland State Superintendent Lillian Lowery resigned Friday morning from the job she has held for three years to head an education non-profit in Columbus, Ohio.

Baltimore County is one of the region's school system's that is expanding the use of laptops and tablets as the school year gets off to a start this week.

Maryland has received a three-year waiver from the U.S. Department of Education for the federal No Child Left Behind law, granting it flexibility from some of the act's strict requirements.