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A boundary study for overcrowded Pleasant Plains Elementary School in Towson will move forward after a Baltimore County Board of Education decision last week.
Tuition promise scholarships are changing conversations around family dinner tables; college can be affordable. The impossible might just become possible.
The Baltimore County school board will interview six finalists for superintendent this month in a selection process challenged by a short timeline, discord.
The Stoneleigh Elementary School PTA recently kicked off “The Morning Mile,” a fitness program that encourages students to start each day with healthy activity.
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.
School officials in suburban Maryland will hire an outside firm to help in an investigation of reporting practices and supervision issues after a sexual assault case involving football players who allegedly attacked four of their teammates with a broomstick at Damascus High School.
More than 200 people from Harford County are expected to board buses Monday afternoon for Annapolis to rally for funding for local schools and schools across the state.
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.
In this year’s readers’ poll, more than 15,000 voters cast their vote for Harford County’s best of the best – people and organizations that locals trust and admire.
The governor has appointed three new members to the Harford County Board of Education and one new member to the Harford Community College Board of Trustees.
More than 200 people attended a Timonium town hall to tell County Executive Johnny Olszewski what they want to see in the county budget — and Councilman Wade Kach provided a long list.
Each Fountain Green Elementary School student has a homework assignment Monday through Thursday, to read the next chapter of “The World According to Humphrey,” a series by Betty E. Birney. It's about a classroom pet hamster who tells the stories of the school days, and nights, as he sees them.
Baltimore County state Sen. Kathy Klausmeier presided over the Maryland Senate for the first time Friday, substituting for President Thomas V. Mike Miller, who was absent due to cancer treatment. Klausmeier is the new president pro tem of the state Senate. She's been in the legislature since 1995.
Spring Garden Elementary School is continuing its efforts to raise funds for their new playground. They just wrapped up a Texas Roadhouse gift card fundraiser and are rolling out this month another card fundraiser.
McDaniel College recently named Westminster resident Julie Weaver as the school’s financial wellness coordinator, a position that has been created to help students navigate paying for college, managing loan debt and other college-related expenses. The Times caught up with Weaver.
Baltimore County voters made history Tuesday by casting ballots for their first elected school boards. Seven elected members in December will join four members appointed by the governor and a student member to convene the county's first-ever elected board.
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.
Vernon A Turner, a career Baltimore County public school educator who enjoyed coaching an after school sports program for disadvantaged kids, died Tuesday from a heart attack at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Dundalk resident was 71.
Whoever is elected to the seven Baltimore County school board positions this year will wield enormous influence in setting the direction of schools for years to come. They will decide how about $1.5 billion is spent, who the next superintendent will be and where new schools are built.
Joining the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame will be the late Cheryl Eberhardt (1962), David Glenn (1975), Dr. Jacqueline Holland (1971) and Mitchell “Mitch” Shank (1973).
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.
Manchester Baptist Church will be hosting a free clothing giveaway from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. The event is open to the entire family and this annual giveaway will be held in the Fellowship Hall.
Harford County has been rocked by a shooting that has shattered its sense of itself. But after three such incidents in less than three years, longtime residents wonder: has the once rural county dotted with small, tight-knit communities changed beneath their feet?
Parents of students at two Harford County public schools whose replacements have been deferred in the last decade pleaded their cases for new schools Monday night.
Howard County school board public hearing to address options to alleviate high school overcrowding is Tuesday. The PTA Council of Howard County has taken no public position on the options.
Eight options to relieve high school overcrowding for the 2019-2020 and future academic years are being considered by the Howard County school board. A public hearing to provide input on the proposed options is scheduled for Sept. 11 at 7 p.m., in the school board’s boardroom.
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.
What was life like for young people before cell phones, before Facebook and blogs, before Instagram and Snapchat, Twitter and Tumbler and Match? Before kids spent hours exercising their thumbs, sitting on a chair or lying on a bed or sofa, playing video games and texting?
Donald M. "Chatty" Chatellier, longtime Washington College coach, died Aug. 15 for cardiovascular disease at the Resorts at Chester River Manor in Chestertown. He was 89.