Education

Maryland's new state school superintendent is a school transformation specialist and says he took the job, in part, because the state has committed $4 billion to reshape schools over the next decade.

Protections for college athletes, a program to alleviate "period poverty" and improvements to the way Maryland compensates inmates who were wrongfully convicted are among the state laws taking effect Thursday.

Eva P. Higgins, a Mount Vernon resident who was a history teacher and later an advocate for Baltimore's historic preservation movement, died of respiratory failure Saturday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The Naval Academy welcomed 1,186 new midshipmen to the Yard Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the two-day Induction Day.

Students and staff will no longer have to wear masks in schools and district offices beginning Thursday, but masks will still be required on buses.

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the extension through June 2029. Daniels' contract was set to expire in 2024, and is now set to end in 2029.

Richard D. Carl Sr., a Korean War veteran and longtime Baltimore County public schools science teacher who later taught at Stevenson University, has died. He was 88.

The general public will be able to visit the Naval Academy by the end of the week.

Carroll Community College is opening its doors to summer learners again this year. Whether five or 85 years old, CCC officials say students are excited for the education offered at the camps.

Brenda Bradley Gelston, whose dream of a respected girls and women’s sports officiating organization led to the formation of the Baltimore Board of Officials for Women’s Sports, died June 20 in Baltimore. She was 80.

Carroll County Public Schools Board of Education appointed a plethora of new principals and assistant principals this year, all of whom are no strangers to the system, and, in some cases, to the school itself.

The Howard County Board of Education voted 5-3 in a board meeting Thursday night to keep school resource officers in public schools next year.

A Naval Academy midshipman was sent to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center after crashing a plane.

A midshipman died Tuesday night while on leave, the Naval Academy announced Wednesday.

The man who Chicago police believe fatally stabbed a Maryland graduate student Saturday in the Loop is also wanted in two other attacks, according to a Chicago police community alert.

Now, 32-year-old Cronic has her 20-piece art collection, “A Midshipman’s Journey,” on the Naval Academy museum walls for the next year.