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Contributions are not deductible on your federal tax return. But earnings from a 529 plan do not count as income for federal tax purposes if they are used for qualified education expenses such as tuition fees and books.

More than 1,400 students were named to the dean's list for the spring 2018 semester at York College of Pennsylvania. Local students included: Alicia Badra, of

The County Council is considering a resolution that would pose a question to the voters in the November election: Should their charter be amended to require the County Council to confirm the county executive’s choice of police chief?

Complaints of unruly gatherings near Towson University halved two years in a row after the ordinance went into effect in 2016.

A special security unit at the Johns Hopkins University that has recently drawn the concern of student activists has been working at the school for years, university officials said.

Rob Hiaasen's wryly observant writing style and his generous mentoring of young journalists assured him of a role in several newsrooms, from The Baltimore Sun to, most recently, The Capital Gazette, where he tragically was killed along with colleagues on Thursday.

Thirteen candidates are running for four open seats on the Howard County Board of Education. The primary election is on Tuesday.

For the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships; amazing professors, who were instrumental in my being able to

Carroll Community College is inviting the community to attend its “Super” Spring Open House on Tuesday, April 24 from 6 to 8 p.m., according to a news release from the college. The event is designed for high school and transferring students, adult learners and parents with children of all ages.

Jody Olsen will speak to graduates during the May 18 graduation ceremony in Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena.

For the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships, amazing mentors and, by the grace of God, a date. I was also able to discover the reason why Donald Trump is president: Overly liberal professors pushing conservatives to the edge.

With April being Community College Awareness Month, those at Carroll Community College — including Steven Wantz, the executive director of Institutional Advancement — are working to promote and celebrate and institution working to make a difference in the county.

Cardrienne Perrin Griffin, a longtime educator and civil rights activist who cofounded the service-driven organization Women Behind the Community, died of a stroke at age 84.

A Towson professor makes a case for why a bill passed by the state legislature granting free community college tuition to certain students would be the “cause of significant financial and educational regression” in Maryland.

In the wake of online criticism that called a teaching-assistant handbook “discriminatory,” the University of Maryland’s computer science department has removed text that offered different guidance for men and women

Antonia Keane, a Loyola University Maryland sociologist, once headed the city's Human Relations Commission.

Four years after the Maryland State Department of Education began requiring the state’s public schools to give students the PARCC tests, some teachers remain concerned that the online version is helping to widen an achievement gap they’ve spent decades working to close.

Robert W. Black Jr., a Baltimore businessman and former board member and treasurer of US lacrosse, died April 6 at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The Ruxton resident was 83.

In a sentencing memorandum, former Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance asks for leniency before his sentencing this Friday.

bs-ed-op-0418-reich-china-20180417. America has always had an industrial policy, says Robert Reich. The real question is whether it's forward- or backward-looking

For the second year in a row, a student team from Harford Community College has won the Maryland Sustainable Growth Challenge).

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman submitted a nearly $900 million county budget for fiscal 2019 Monday. The budget has no tax increases, but it includes funding for raises for county employees, increased education spending and money for a 24-hour crisis center.

Towson University will formally break ground Tuesday on the college’s new Science Complex, which officials say will become the largest academic building on campus when it’s completed in 2020.

The idea of having graduate students from McDaniel College complete this internship began at Target in 1983 when Dr. Don Rabush, professor of special education, partnered with a group of parents who had children with disabilities.

Board of Education profile: Patricia Dorsey

“Free tuition” programs like the one Maryland lawmakers approved this week are gaining national momentum, but many of the statewide initiatives are still too new for experts to say how they will turn out in the long run.

The following local students received degree from Western Governors University, Salt Lake City: John Campbell, of Eldersburg, his MBA in IT Management degree;

The following local students at the made the dean's list for the fall semester at Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York: Daniel Honeycutt, of

Thousands of students seeking degrees and professional certificates at Maryland community colleges would be eligible for free tuition under a compromise the General Assembly passed in the final minutes of its 2018 legislative session.

Anne J. McCloskey, a retired Loyola University athletic coach and administrator who also co-founded a grassroots crime victims’ rights group, died of pancreatic cancer Saturday at her Towson home. She was 87.

Towson University is working hard to involve itself more in the surrounding community.

Baltimore-based musician Athena Hiotis, vocalist and guitar player with the band RÊVE will be offering everything she has learned about the music business and the business of music beginning at 3:30 p.m. in room T404.

Facing a firestorm of criticism, Sinclair Broadcast Group spent last week defending a controversial on-air promotion in which its TV anchors across the country read identical scripts decrying “fake” news.

Thomas Russell Hubbard, a retired health sciences teacher at the Community College of Baltimore City and Northwestern High School, died of heart failure March 23 at Bon Secours Hospital in Chesapeake, Va. The former Lochearn resident was 90.

Top journalism schools say their students are apprehensive about working at Sinclair.

An independent audit has found that a program to curb health spending in Maryland has saved hundreds of million of dollars in its first three years, but another study found no direct link between the program and any cost savings or reduced hospital use by patients in its pilot years.

Donna L. Harrington, associate dean and professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, died March 30 from cancer at her Hanover, Anne Arundel County home. She was 54.

Even though they weren't born when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, young activists say his legacy still lives on in their work.

Baltimore Police are seeking three men considered “persons of interest” in an exchange of gunfire in the hallway of an off-campus Morgan State University apartment building on Monday night, they said Tuesday. 

Local students have been named to the fall 2017 semester president's list at Clemson University, in South Carolina: Caitlin L. Darling, of Mount Airy,

Public Safety and education remained top issues commissioners will have to consider during the FY19 budget process, which is well underway after the last day of agency hearings on Tuesday.

Towson University is expanding a grant to Baltimore County Police to step up weekend neighborhood patrols and keep an eye on rowdy students during the spring semester.

Charles Wight, the former president of Weber State University in Utah, will take over on July 1.

Baltimore police and officers from Morgan State University police responded to a report of gunshots at the university’s off-campus housing Monday night. 

News of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. is still a shock to the system 50 years later.

A whistleblower from Illinois says Marylanders need to treat Chelsea Manning's Senate candidacy seriously. She's earned it.

Motorcycle maven Julie Gelsinger will be teaching riders how to navigate with confidence at Carroll Community College this April.

Dan D’Orazio is CEO of Sage Growth Partners, which helps health care companies find their niches and expand.

Changing passive assumptions about safety when it comes to small things is also related to safety when it comes to big things, even tragic things: That’s why the Carroll County Society for Human Resource Management is sponsoring a workplace violence workshop.