Uncertainty still hangs over the Baltimore Teachers Union’s new leadership, three weeks after national union officials launched an investigation

The American Federation of Teachers is blocking an attempt to hold a new Baltimore Teachers Union election.

Middle school teacher and newly elected Baltimore Teachers Union President Diamonté Brown wants to stop attempts by Marietta English to overturn the election.

The Baltimore Teachers Union elections committee plans to schedule a new election after allegations of campaign violations marred the vote earlier this month.

Diamonté Brown worked to get juvenile offenders back into classrooms. Then she became a teacher. Now she's head of the Baltimore Teachers Union.

Middle school teacher Diamonté Brown defeated the longtime Baltimore Teachers Union president Wednesday in a surprising upheaval.

Teachers will vote Wednesday in the most contentious Baltimore Teachers Union election in years. It has divided educators and been fraught with complaints.

Following a series of assaults on staff and teachers, the Baltimore Teachers Union released recommendations aimed at making schools safer.

Joyce P. Wheeler, a retired city public schools elementary teacher who made teaching science fun, died March 21 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at her family farm in Sequim, Wash. The former longtime Govans resident was 78.

Baltimore police have charged Patterson High School student Bernard Hopkins, 16, of Baltimore, with the stabbing of a fellow student in a school classroom.

A student was stabbed inside Patterson High School on Monday, according to district officials, marking the second time a Baltimore student has been stabbed on or near school grounds in less than a week.

Maryland schools have a documented problem with lead in drinking water, but a recent report from a local consumer group found the state has made improvements toward addressing the issue.

In a recent discussion about concentrated poverty and our public schools, a colleague mentioned that, “poverty was going down,” in an attempt to de-emphasize the need for greater education funding. Problem is, official definitions of poverty often don’t reflect the reality of day to day life.

The 25-year-old man charged in the shooting of a Frederick Douglass High School special education assistant on Friday had come to the school to confront the staffer about disciplining  a family member, who is a student at the school, according to charging documents.

Baltimore City Schools say more staffers have been assaulted at National Academy Foundation, where a cafeteria worker was assaulted by students late last month.

A trio of violent events in Baltimore schools has revived discussions about school safety and the debate over how students are punished.

A cafeteria worker at one Baltimore school was injured Tuesday in an alleged assault involving students, and a teacher at another city school was punched by a student Wednesday, district officials confirmed.

The teacher had just returned from a leave of absence and was spending her first day back in the classroom Wednesday when the incident with the student occurred, said Baltimore Teachers Union president Marietta English. The moment was captured in a viral video this week.

No students were hurt after a gun was fired at a Brooklyn elementary/middle school in South Baltimore on Wednesday morning.

The first week of school for Baltimore-area students is expected to see temperatures over 90 degrees in each of the first three days, and that could mean shortened days for students whose classrooms lack air conditioning.

Maryland's teachers union gathered a group of advocates from around the state Thursday to call for closing a loophole that allows casino revenues to be diverted from public schools.

The quick succession of ribbon-cutting ceremonies represent years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars spent under the 21st Century School Buildings Program, which will eventually bring up to 28 modernized school buildings to the city.

We members of the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education – also known as the Kirwan Commission — have come to our first major philosophical juncture as we address the question of how to best help struggling learners.

Teachers across Maryland targeted in email campaign urging them to leave unions.

After the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that public employees cannot be forced to pay union fees, labor union leaders in Maryland called it another attack on worker rights and vowed to step up their fights to improve workplaces.

The Baltimore school system's 2018-2019 calendar designates the first two days of spring break as potential “inclement weather recovery days.” But the teachers union contract requires that teachers get a vacation of five consecutive days each spring.

The visas of roughly 25 Baltimore public school teachers will expire at the end of this month, forcing the foreign educators to return to countries many of them haven’t considered home for a decade.

The Baltimore school board voted to approve just one out of six charter school applications, prompting outrage from charter supporters who crowded into the meeting Tuesday night.

The Baltimore school board voted 6-2 to pass next school year’s $1.3 billion operating budget, which manages to avoid a call for layoffs but includes steep cuts for the city’s public charter schools.

LaQuisha Hall, an English teacher at Carver Vocational-Technical High School, was named Wednesday as Baltimore’s 2018 Teacher of the Year.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has voted to ratify new salary scales, endorsing a 2.5 percent pay raise for city teachers over the next two years.

If city school officials don't act quickly, they risk either going against Gov. Larry Hogan's mandate to have school between Labor Day and June 15 or breaking an agreement with the teachers' union.

The city’s teacher union said in a statement Tuesday that Hogan should refuse to “accept any federal dollars to support arming teachers here in Baltimore City and across the state of Maryland.”

Democrat Krish Vignarajah, the only woman running for governor, selected former Baltimore teacher union president Sharon Blake as her running mate.

Maryland’s state superintendent said she’s calling an emergency meeting of the Maryland Center for School Safety board on Monday to “ensure that every resource is available is being used to make schools safe. But she also said the more should be done to support and counsel troubled students.

When I was a young Baltimore city teacher, I was groomed to accept unacceptable circumstances for myself and my students. The message was clear: Just deal with it, that’s city teaching, lower your expectations.

More than 100 Baltimore parents and advocates came to angrily question city school district officials about poor school building conditions and a variety of other education issues at a town hall Monday.

State lawmakers called Friday for changes to a system of awarding construction funding that has forced Baltimore schools to return millions of dollars in state money for much-needed repairs — while Gov. Larry Hogan blasted what he deemed “mismanagement” in the school system.

The group has raised nearly $15,000 as of Thursday at 12:45 p.m.

Baltimore schools have had to return millions in state funding for building repairs after projects to fix failing heating systems and roofs grew too expensive or took too long.

The Baltimore Teachers Union is urging the city to close down all schools until officials get a handle on heating problems that have already closed some buildings and left children shivering in others.

Four Baltimore city schools were closed because of heating or water issues Tuesday, keeping students home on what was supposed to be their first day back from winter break.

The Polk County Sheriff's office identified two of the victims as Victoria and Peter Worthington. She was a Baltimore city school teacher. He was a University of Maryland law student.

Contrary to popular belief, being an educator is still a noble profession, and teachers and paraprofessionals in Baltimore City are doing the necessary work to mold our city’s children into well-rounded learners who will become effective leaders of our great city.

This agreement locks in teachers’ health care benefits through December 31, 2019.

I recently had the honor of meeting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos. The meeting was unplanned and brief, but for me, as a public high school special educator, it was a big deal.

City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises is putting a renewed emphasis on teaching history, science, music and art this year.

The union says that the district violated agreed upon procedures when it laid off about 60 union members in early June.

After knocking on 36,000 doors, the Baltimore teachers Union and other advocates brought 17 dropouts back to school and enrolled children in pre-K.