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After making it to the last round of the inaugural federal Race to the Top district competition, the Baltimore City and Baltimore County school systems fell short of securing grants that would have strengthened individualized learning and helped close the achievement gap.

Demonstration planned for Tuesday outside of Polytechnic Institute

Ten Maryland schools have been name prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Friday.

St. Augustine School in Elkridge was one of 10 Maryland schools, and the only school in Howard County, to receive a 2012 National Blue Ribbon honor from the U.S. Department of Education.

A student at Perry Hall High School was shot on campus this morning, the first day of the new academic year, Baltimore County Police say, and a suspect was taken into custody.

The city school board reinstated a school principal Monday night who had been fired by CEO Andres Alonso over alleged cheating at her school.

One student was shot this morning, the first day of school, at Perry Hall High School, Baltimore County Police say.

Here's fair warning for students: Monday isn't just the first day of school in Baltimore City and the surrounding five counties, it's the beginning of life with a whole new set of expectations from teachers.

Innovative partnership at once-troubled Baltimore City school could serve as a model

In remarks that elicited applause from 800 Baltimore County English teachers, U.S.Education Secretary Arne Duncan said teachers should earn more and there should be more focus on educating the whole child.

The chef's Guts & Glory tour stops in Baltimore in November

Bryan Voltaggio will host his third annual benefit dinner to fight childhood hunger on Sept. 13 at Volt, his flagship Frederick restaurant. Joining him this time will be Michael Voltaggio, his brother, his onetime Top Chef competitor and now the chef at Ink in Los Angeles, and Matt Orlando, the chef de cuisine at Noma in Copenhagen.

10 universities promise to make financial aid transparent to students

The waiver of the No Child Left Behind law lets Maryland craft a more rational and balanced approach to measuring educational progress

Maryland was one of eight states granted a waiver Tuesday from some of the strictest requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which will allow the state to set more reasonable goals for student achievement levels and adopt reforms to close the achievement gap.

Pastor says same-sex marriage support will make Obama a one-term president

Baltimore County parents and legislators will ask incoming schools superintendent Dallas Dance to consider putting more teachers in high schools, where class sizes have swelled since positions were eliminated a year ago.

If Vice President Joe Biden's surprise embrace of gay marriage on "Meet the Press" made the president uncomfortable, that may be a good thing.

Poor students perform better when exposed to their more-affluent peers

Delaware Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery will move to Maryland to become the state's new school chief, the state school board announced Friday morning.

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

The backdrop of the recession means that many of these school improvement grant schools have funding to do things they've never done at the same time that they're hamstrung to fund many of the basic things educators typically take for granted.

Why not give promising, disadvantaged scholars an extra year to maximize their academic strengths and become more intellectually competitive?

When S. Dallas Dance was searching for his first teaching job out of college, he was hired by a high school principal almost twice his age in Virginia.

Maryland will receive another infusion of federal funding to continue turnaround efforts in the state's worst schools, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.

The Baltimore school system has paid its employees about $65 million for unused leave over the past five years, a rare perk that many employers have abandoned and that has come under fire as school districts have experienced shrinking budgets.

Think there's too much testing in schools now? Just wait until the 2013-2014 school year.

A bipartisan group of Congressmen from Virginia is seeking to overturn an obscure IRS rule that is precluding cheaper, market-based options for school renovation.