charter schools

Rewriting No Child Left Behind, funding Common Core standards and encouraging classroom diversity should be the top priorities of education reformers.

ACCE school would be replaced or renovated in Hampden in first year of a 10-year plan to modernize city schools and infrastructure.

As many as 240 AmeriCorps members will relocate from Perryville to Baltimore's Graceland Park in the coming months, as a division of the national service organization establishes its first urban campus.

Difficulty securing financing and permits on the part of developer Palm Cos. has delayed the opening date of the new Monarch Global Academy Public Contract School in Laurel.

City ready to break ground on Habitat for Humanity houses on depressed McCabe Avenue off York Road.

The financially strapped owners of Wisp Resort, Maryland's only ski resort, say they have found a buyer for the western Maryland property.

If 2,500 Baltimore middle school students had their way Tuesday, President Barack Obama would be re-elected, children of illegal immigrants would pay in-state tuition rates, same-sex couples could marry and gambling in Maryland would not expand.

Dream Act supporters ramp up campaign

Notes on Maryland football commitments Deon Long, Elvis Dennah, Jarrett Ross, Richy Anderson and more.

Teachers in Chicago and elsewhere need help, not more tests

Led by the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, and supported by 30 businesses, nonprofits and government agencies, Thomas Johnson Elementary/Middle School hosted the first public reveal of the 'Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project,'

Improving classroom instruction is the most critical issue

St. Paul's School for Girls Interim Head of School Lila Lohr is returning to her old post as the school looks for a permanent head, and using experience gained as interim elsewhere to lead the school forward.

Kimberly Moffitt of UMBC Schools and families spend too much time on transitions that have little meaning

Shutdown Academy has offered a summer camp in each of the past four years called Commitment 4 Change, but the All-Star Bowl is in its first year.

All that mattered to Mike Williams, a lineman from Archbishop Spalding, and DeAndre Lane, a record-setting running back from Catonsville, was that their hometown school selected them to be part of a potentially unprecedented turnaround built on local players.

The Anne Arundel County school board voted Wednesday to allow Chesapeake Science Point to expand its high school program but placed it on two years' probation as part of its efforts to address concerns about the charter school.

The Govanstowne Farmers Market debuted for its second season Wednesday, June 6, but a half hour later, Terri Russell said she had no chocolate ice cream. "I'm sold out, already," said Russell, owner of Simple Pleasures, an organic ice cream business based in Bowie, Md.

The Children's Guild Institute said it will open an International Baccalaureate School in Laurel, its second school in Anne Rundle County and third in the Baltimore area.

The future of Baltimore County's only charter school is uncertain with its license to operate set to expire in two months and parents criticizing the there is no formal process for the school to have it renewed.

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

The Maryland Humanities Council has announced Aisha Watson, of Edgewood, a sixth grade Language Arts teacher at City Neighbors Charter School in Baltimore, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Award.

A mathematics educator whose students have consistently scored among the highest in Maryland on state assessments was named Baltimore City's 2012 Teacher of the Year.

One more Catholic school in Baltimore — St. Ambrose — is set to close, a sad end to Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien's disastrous stewardship of the city's parochial educational system.

Towson University President Maravene Loeschke announced this week that state Superintendent Nancy Grasmick will join the school to help train future teachers.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and Baltimore Reads have partnered on a metrowide book drive to fill the library shelves at city schools.

Former coaches and athletes at Laurel High, St. Vincent Pallotti High and Laurel Boys and Girls Club are now on teams gearing up for March Madness, the NCAA Division 1 men's tournament.

Woodberry neighbors donate $10,742 to Living Classrooms, about a fifth of hat they made selling fake, purple mustaches during the Baltimore Ravens' playoff run last month

Why do Brian Williams and the producers continue this charade?

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity dedicates book to Abingdon library branch in honor of Black History Month

As Maryland stumbled its way through the 2011 season, Jarrett Ross watched intently from afar to keep up with his freshman brother¿s progress and try to gauge whether or not he¿d like to eventually join the Terps.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is preparing for the sale of St. Peter the Apostle to a nearby non-Catholic church. St. Peter's, now part of a three-parish consolidation known as Transfiguration Catholic Community, will be sold to Carter Memorial Church of God in Christ.

A new education advocacy group, formed late last year, has pledged to lobby for charter schools, funding for pre-kindergarten education and leave time for parents attending meetings with teachers.

The Joppatowne Mariners bounced back from their holiday tournament loss with a lopsided, 60-19, win over Harford Tech Tuesday night in UCBAC Chesapeake Division girls basketball play.