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Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott on Wednesday urged Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young to use an estimated $34 million city budget surplus on heating and cooling in city schools. Young said coming costs under the Kirwan Commission must be prioritized.

Say the word "teacher." The image it evokes reflects the experience you've had with them. When I say that word (and I consider it to be a sacred word), there is one person who embodies it above all others: my high school English teacher with whom I'm friends to this day. I am now 55, and he continues to teach and inspire me.

I've lived in Baltimore City for most of my life, but I never had as much access to the city as I do now that I attend UMBC, a university outside of

A power outage has closed Prospect Mill Elementary School in Bel Air, according to Harford County Public Schools.

Maryland needs a statewide public school funding model that incentivizes the redesign of our schools, and develops the most innovative and forward-thinking school system in the country. A successful formula should focus not just on graduation rates and test scores, but on five core values that serve as a framework to improve our human condition, bring us together and help our children interact in schools that are as diverse and promising as the world in which we live.

Should marking period grades for Baltimore County Public Schools factor in student homework completion, classroom conduct and ability to collaborate?

A water main break in the area of Chesapeake High School in Baltimore County has closed the building for the day.

Running Brook Elementary School teachers Sara Wolfson and Jeanette Swank are using a recently awarded $10,000 national grant to help their fellow English language arts teachers learn to design literacy-based lessons that better engage students.

A few weeks ago, a Texas school teacher named Brandy Young went viral on the Internet when a parent shared a letter she sent home announcing her new homework policy: There wouldn't be any assigned, unless it was work your child was unable to complete in class. She instead asked parents and students spend their time after school doing things like eating together as a family, reading to and with your children and getting kids to bed early, all of which have a proven impact on student success.

A construction team led a guided tour of the new Wilde Lake Middle School Friday morning, explaining all the nuts and bolts behind what will be Maryland's first net-zero energy school in the state.

Do you approve of Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order prohibiting public schools from opening before Labor Day?

The CollegeBound Foundation, a Baltimore-based non-profit, receives $1 million gift from Kevin Plank.

Former Player of Year Bleakney reflects on National Championship

Her family had been torn apart by drugs and mental illness, and Rosalind Holsey had little hope for the future. Then her life took a new direction. She was shut out of cosmetology in high school and found herself among the boys in a barbering class. "This industry literally changed my life," she said.

Mt. Hebron junior Johnny Linsenmeyer named Howard County boys soccer Player of Year to headline all-county team

Even though Havre de Grace's annual community Thanksgiving dinner has been moved from its traditional site at St. Patrick Catholic Church to the Havre de Grace Community Center this year, that did not stop several hundred volunteers and multiple people wanting a Thanksgiving meal and holiday company from coming out Thursday.

Over the weekend, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank pledged $16 million to St. John's College High School in Chevy Chase from his private foundation.

Fifth-graders at Red Pump Elementary School in Bel Air got a different classroom experience Monday when they joined a host of volunteers to plant 400 trees of eight varieties of native Maryland trees such as hickory, pin oak, red bud and river birch around the school's storm ponds and ball fields behind the school

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there's the 10th annual Highland Day community celebration. Festivities start at 11 a.m. There will be a costume parade, lots of activities for kids young and old, local vendors, crafters, food, beverages, games, just to name some.

Glenelg High graduate Caroline Bowman is starring as Eva Peron in "Evita" at the Kennedy Center. She and other local artists who launched from Columbia are venturing back to town for "Bringing Broadway to Columbia," a Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts benefit at Toby's Dinner Theater Oct. 13. The show, staged every couple years, is a large-scale, variety program that brings theater and musical performers together at the place where many of them got their start.

Raymond Chow, Mt. Hebron High School Marching Unit Boosters publicity chairman, has great news to share. Last month, the MHHS Marching Unit participated in the Miss America Parade in Atlantic City.

Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent S. Dallas Dance was recently nominated as the final member of President Obama's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

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Emmanuel United Methodist Church will host a Fall Fun Day on Oct. 4 starting at 9 a.m.

Six public schools and three Catholic schools were named National Blue Ribbon Schools, a designation given to the most successful schools in the country.

Elkridge Elementary School is hosting a yard sale on Oct. 4, from 8 a.m to noon

Carroll County Public Schools holidays and dates to remember.

The Maryland Education Credit, which was not brought to a vote last year, would attract critical financial assistance for lower- and middle-income Pre-K to 12th grade students at both public and nonpublic schools by awarding up to $15 million in education tax credits for business donations that help students pay for tutoring, tuition, supplies, transportation and special needs services.

At least one Carroll County mother has decided to pull her child from an upcoming school system Project ACES event because of its association with the Baltimore Ravens in the wake of the NFL's ongoing domestic violence controversy in which former Ravens running back Ray Rice was videotaped hitting then-fiancee Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino.

The two candidates for the Harford County Council's District E seat have opposing views on the controversial Regent at Stone House wedding venue proposed on a Churchville farm.

I understand that the nation is grappling with difficult economic times, but we should keep in mind that, since the end of World War II, more than half of American economic growth can be traced to science-driven technological innovation.

The Hampstead Ravens Youth Football and Cheer program will have a crab and oyster feast from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Hampstead fire company hall, where the Baltimore Ravens' game may be viewed on the big screen starting at 1 p.m.

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Anne Arundel County education briefs

Maryland's prison officials are looking for a few good men, and women, to serve as corrections officers in the state's detention centers.

Robert Gately Keenan Sr., a retired Baltimore County public schools agriculture teacher who was a Roman Catholic deacon, died of a brain tumor Tuesday at Stella Maris Hospice. The Parkville resident was 77.

Towson was named by online real estate brokerage Movoto as one of three Maryland towns in the top 10 nationwide. The list was based on factors including student-teacher ratio, money spent per student and high school graduation rates.

On Saturday, Sept. 20, the Glenelg High School Robotiators, Team 888 Robotics team, competed in and earned two awards at the 8th annual Battle O' Baltimore FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.

Parents at Baltimore Highlands Elementary School learned how to navigate the new BCPS One web portal

In explaining why voters should pick them, the two candidates for the District E seat on the Harford County Board of Education point to their experiences in education, life and as parents of HCPS students.

Elizabeth M. Solter, an accomplished equestrian and horse trainer who had been a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team, died Sept. 12 at her Berlin farm of breast cancer. She was 47.

Sharon Westra describes her experiences as a volunteer for Acts4Youth

students at Mt. View Middle School enjoyed a unique cultural event: a World Language Kickoff presented by Bianca Chang, retired principal of the Chinese Language School of Columbia.

Events and Activities at the local branches of the BCPL