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Donald E. Snodderly, a veteran Baltimore County public schools educator, died Friday of heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community. He was 87.

Eighth-graders said farewell to peers and teachers on the last day of school at Shiloh Middle School on Tuesday.

A boundary study for overcrowded Pleasant Plains Elementary School in Towson will move forward after a Baltimore County Board of Education decision last week.

No specifics on an East Middle School project were included in the master plan that the Board of Education passed Wednesday.

The move will create resources for students living in poverty at the Towson school.

Some Dulaney High seniors went back to where it all began — Pot Spring Elementary — one last time before their high school graduation.

The Howard County Board of Education adopted its $894.2 operating budget Thursday night, saving additional paraeducators and support teachers.

They learned a lot in elementary and middle school that I didn’t. I never laid eyes on a computer until high school. And they sure know a lot about Earth Day.

The Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to fund a pilot after-school program for middle school students in northern Carroll County.

John Carroll School recently announced its newest group of Carroll Scholars, incoming freshmen whose academic achievements qualified them for the prestigious

A former Park School middle teacher inappropriately touched students and committed "boundary crossing" behavior an independent investigation found.

A Storybook Trail, built by Edgewood Middle School students on the Deerfield Elementary School campus, had its grand opening Wednesday afternoon.

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

Clarksville neighborhood column

Racist graffiti was found painted in white paint on a bathroom mirror at Catonsville Middle School, police said.

Between Sept. 15, 2018, and April 1, 2019, 884 incidents of bullying, harassment or intimidation have been reported to the Howard school system, according to a report.

Due to a water main break on Northfield Road in Ellicott City, Northfield Elementary and Dunloggin Middle schools will dismiss early Wednesday, the schools announced in an email.

Students presented their essays in the District 22-W Lions Clubs American Heritage, Preservation and Patriotism essay contest April 3 at the North Carroll branch library.

A Folly Quarter Middle School family is calling on top school officials, the superintendent and the school board to evaluate school bullying countywide in light of an alleged sexual cyberbullying attack on their daughter, according to a statement sent out Sunday night.

A Howard County middle school principal sent out an email Friday morning to school’s community regarding a “serious sexually explicit cyberbullying incident.”

Evelyn T. Beasley, a popular city public schools educator who was at the helm of Roland Park Elementary Middle School for nearly two decades which she turned around from a failing school, died March 24 from cancer at Woodholme Gardens, a Pikesville assisted-living facility. She was 89.

Carroll County Public Schools educators were recognized at the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Teacher Awards program Wednesday evening.

Bowser receives award for Gifted and Talented education

Harford County Public Schools has announced its top 5 finalists for the 2019 Teacher of the Year award and they are Rebecca Martinek, Paige Milanoski, Kristie Smith, Kathleen Thompson and Dawn Zipay.

A showing of the film "Screenagers — The Impact of the Digital Age on Children" will be held at Oklahoma Road Middle School on March 7 for students and parents.

The Howard County Public School System includes 42 elementary schools; 20 middle schools; 12 high schools; one school for students with severe disabilities; one school for students with behavioral and emotional issues; and one school for students enrolled in technical and vocational programs.

The Stewart and Marlene Greenebaum Family Foundation has pledged $8 million to McDonogh School to build a new middlel school.

Beginning Monday, Harford County Public Schools will use an automated attendance system to inform parents/guardians much sooner when their child is not in school.

The Carroll County Career & Technology Center has received a $44,000 grant from the Dart Foundation to build a makerspace.

Here are our biggest takeaways from the 2019-2029 Carroll County Public Schools student enrollment projection report presented at the last Board of Education meeting on Jan. 9:

Two seventh-grader students from Aberdeen Middle School were charged with making a bomb threat to their school over the winter break, Aberdeen Police said.

Cockeysville Middle School has launched a food pantry to serve the school community and beyond, as staff say they are encountering growing food insecurity in the area.

Carroll County Public Schools had year filled with action and change.

Six public schools were named Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools, an award given to the state’s highest performing schools.

In addition to the approval of a feasibility study for a possible East Middle School project, a large portion of Wednesday’s meeting was spent listening to half a dozen educators — plus their union representatives — ask the board for better pay as the contract negotiation process continues.

Twenty years ago, as the Harford County Sheriff’s Office deployed its first six school resource officers, some in Harford County questioned the need to put law enforcement officers in schools.

Baltimore's Banneker Blake Academy is too successful to shutter now.

A Northwest Middle School student won a contest to develop a logo for the Maryland State Department of Education’s Mathematics Department. Leilani Wiswakarma, an eighth grader at the school, won the contest.

Unsurprisingly, members of the Board of Education and ex-officio school board member Commissioner Richard Weaver clashed on Wednesday when the outgoing school board voted to move forward on recommendations from Superintendent Steve Lockard to spend $100,000 on a feasibility study to examine option

Despite the Board of Education moving forward this week with recommendations for a feasibility study to help find a solution to the East Middle School dilemma, some members of the school board and Board of County Commissioners continue to disagree about a path forward.

Dinambi Butler speaker visits Mount Airy Middle

Bel Air Middle School students hit the trail Thursday for the school’s 36th annual Turkey Trot run, sponsored by the physical education department

Castanea Estates, a new 40-house development on the former Chestnut Ridge Golf Course, stands at the border between two school districts. A Baltimore County Public Schools boundary study will determine where students from the development will be districted.

Levels of lead that exceed federal health standards have been found in water samples taken from nine Howard County schools.

With early voting underway and Election Day on Nov. 6, the Carroll County Times reached out to the candidates running for school board to see where they stand on key issues facing Carroll County Public Schools.

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.

Two Carroll County Public Schools science teachers have been chosen as two of the three Maryland finalists for the 2018 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

While we don’t blame the Board of County Commissioners for their frustrated take on the final report from the Redistricting and School Closure Committee, we do think the commissioners are oversimplifying the issue of redistricting.

The long-anticipated release of the Redistricting and School Closure Committee’s report, which included five possible planning options, left Carroll’s commissioners —  the primary funding agent for Carroll County Public Schools — angry and yelling the following day.

Back-to-School nights offer parents a chance to meet teachers and teachers a chance to meet parents and discuss upcoming year.