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Education secretary Betsy DeVos continued to advocate for robust school choice in front of a room of several hundred journalists attending the Education Writers Association’s annual conference in Baltimore Monday.

A proposal by Betsy Devos to cut funding to the Special Olympics is heartless and shows a lack of compassion for the disabled.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has agreed to speak to education journalists at the Education Writers Association conference in Baltimore in May.

One of the nation's largest for-profit college chains announced Wednesday that it was abruptly closing in dozens of locations nationwide, after its accrediting agency suspended approval. Brightwood College has three Maryland locations, including campuses in Baltimore and Towson.

Fallston Middle School and the private Harford Day School in Bel Air were named 2018 National Blue Ribbon Schools on Monday by the U.S. Department of Education.

By no means was Maryland's scholarship program for private schools Mike Busch's idea. But that's hardly the only problem with the Larry Hogan-Ben Jealous debate about education.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous met Monday for the only scheduled debate in the 2018 governor’s race. This transcript was generated through a mix of automated software and human editing.

Michael Dresser talks about a few of the points made during the debate. The debate recorded Monday at Maryland Public Television will be streamed at 7 p.m. on baltimoresun.com.

An outside group group tries to come to the rescue of Democrat Ben Jealous' outgunned media campaign with a TV ad linking Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to the policies of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Maryland Together We Rise says it plans to spend $1 million on ads in support of Jealous.

Governor Hogan's sudden interest in improving schools requires a plan of action.

Mike Pence has outpaced all other vice presidents in casting tie-breaking votes since Alben W. Barkley, President Truman’s first vice president, who broke ties seven times in a 10-month period between September 1949 and June 1950. This is the executive branch run amok.

Jonah Goldberg asks: Why does power corrupt so many people — like Ben Carson and Scott Pruitt?

School safety commission gets an early failing grade by giving guns a pass.

Creating a positive school climate is crucial to combating the social and emotional isolation that can drive students to violent behavior. Understanding this is what brought us to Hebron Harman Elementary School in Anne Arundel County last week to see one of their programs.

Since the beginning of 2018, more children have died in school shootings than military service personnel in combat zones. You have to ask yourselves where the

Mayor Catherine Pugh deserves no credit for taking down Confederate statues.

Don't get huffy about students protesting Betsy DeVos' speech at UB; they're showing what it means to be American.

The students who disrespected Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are a disgrace.

We may be tempted to dismiss Betsy Devos' commencement address at UB as typical platitudes. It was, after all. It checked all the boxes of commencement speech characteristics. Yet, as someone who believes that speech matters, I cannot just accept the typical platitudes — especially not from her.

University President Kurt Schmoke's decision to invite DeVos launched protests and petitions.

For-profit schools have been failing and Gov. Hogan should support the state's ESSA plan.

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back federal efforts to influence university investigations into sexual assault.

If not in a university setting, where else can we expect to be exposed to multiple points of view in order to help students form their own, informed opinions.

UB President Schmoke should admit he was wrong to invite DeVos to speak at commencement.

Governor says he won't sign Maryland education plan

I am not against protest, but I find that we tend to ignore some of the rational thoughts of our opponents just because they are on the other side.

It's no violation of free speech to recognize that DeVos has no business speaking at UB ceremony.

UB law professor: Let me judge for myself whether Besty DeVos is insensitive or incompetent.

Kurt Schmoke's decision to invite Betsy DeVos to speak is a travesty for Baltimore.

Commencement is not and should never be an opportunity to share political views. It is a celebration of the hard work and intellectual growth that students have invested over the years.

The Sun refuses to allow the increased possibility of an incorrect finding that would scar the accused for the rest of his/her life cloud this mindless pursuit of political correctness.

What wise words could Betsy DeVos offer to UB graduates?  How to marry or be born to wealth?

University of Baltimore president Kurt Schmoke defended his decision to invite the U.S. Secretary of Education.

No return to the bad old days of ignoring or excusing sexual assaults on college campuses.

The Secretary of Education will speak give the speech on Dec. 18.

Department of Education head Betsy DeVos, whose achievements thus far include considering a review of campus sexual assaults to benefit the accused, ending

Tom Zirpoli opinion column: For the United States, education spending for all Americans is on the chopping block in a significant way.

We need the Department of Education to enforce Title IX, not undermine it as Secretary DeVos intends.

Attorneys General in 18 states, including Maryland, have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos in an attempt to keep in

Administrators have begun to overhaul Mary E. Rodman and five other city schools, an undertaking funded by a billion-dollar federal program to transform the nation's failing schools.

Remember when presidents picked the best and the brightest for important cabinet positions?

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos got booed yesterday when she tried to speak  at historically black Bethune-Cookman University’s commencement in Daytona

Educating inmates reduces recidivism and strengthens communities

Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a bill on Wednesday that sets standards for identifying low-performing schools and limits the state's options for reforming them -- a move that Democratic lawmakers plan to overturn in the coming days.

State education leaders are infuriated by the passage of legislation they see as a power grab by the General Assembly that will diminish their role in deciding how schools are held accountable over the next 15 years.

The Maryland Senate advanced a bill forbidding controversial education reforms. Gov. Larry Hogan renewed his promise to veto it.

Ironically, Republican opposition to President Obama may make it difficult for the Trump/DaVos team to push their agenda. In 2015, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to reduce federal overreach in education during the former president's second term. The ESSA law shifted much of the responsibility for control of education programs away from the secretary of education to the states.

Governor Larry Hogan popped into a Montgomery County elementary school Thursday morning to read some Dr. Seuss, sharing the job with one of the Trump administration's most divisive figures, education secretary Betsy DeVos.

Gov. Larry Hogan is pledging to veto a bill moving through the General Assembly that would prevent the state from enacting controversial reforms for struggling schools that have been championed by the Republican and members of the state school board.

With nuts, neophytes and revisionists running the Trump asylum, one might wonder why 70 or so presidents, chancellors and advocates for historically black colleges and universities — HBCUs — accepted a "getting-to-know-you" White House invitation. The president had promised to "do more for HBCUs than any other president has done before." So, gingerly suspending doubts, they, like the educator Booker T. Washington more than a century before, sought seats at the table of power to bring