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Students from several area elementary schools, as well as Catonsville High School and Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, will have their artwork on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art through May 17 as part of the annual "Art is for Everyone" exhibition at the museum at 10 Art Museum Drive in Baltimore.

Students from several area elementary schools, as well as Catonsville Middle School, Catonsville High School and Western School of Technology and Environmental Science will have their artwork on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art through May 17 as part of the annual "Art is for Everyone" exhibition at the museum at 10 Art Museum Drive in Baltimore.

News and events from Baltimore County schools

College students from Laurel received numerous awards and graduated from college

Taylor Bopp awarded $23,000 in merit-based scholarships from Lynchburg College in Virginia

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents meets in Baltimore Wednesday to consider raising tuition at state colleges.

Young readers found encouragement and inspiration as they read and then wrote to the authors about how the books changed them or the way they thought.

Zimmer discusses volunteerism and work in the community.

Caitlyn Battle-McDonald, a junior at Dulaney High School, was recently named a 2015 Carsons scholar.

Baltimore City's school chief will meet with disgruntled Paul Laurence Dunbar High School students on Monday to listen to complaints that led to a large sit-in Friday at the school.

The resolution, which was passed on Tuesday by a vote of 18-to-8 voiced the SGA's non-support of a "Chick-fil-A in a current or future sense, particularly in any location that is central to student life."

Ebb Valley Elementary School received a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust to learn more about planting trees, watershed restoration and bioretention.

he maker of a web application that helps students find college scholarships has won a business competition chaired by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank.

Maryland should mandate that every county provide gifted students from all socioeconomic backgrounds with advanced coursework options that match their talents.

A Century High School student was recently diagnosed with Pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, which has been confirmed by the Carroll County Health Department.

School briefs from schools in Baltimore County

Cranberry Station Elementary fifth grader Ryan Kirkpatrick honored for community service.

Century High School students Rogers and Jacobs pitch SPAtaneous mobile spa.

With once fancy piece of paper, the qualifier that's identified you for nearly your whole life changes. The ornate lettering and signature from the university president is your cue: You're no longer a student; you're now an alumnus.

To protect student data from falling into the wrong hands, Carroll County Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Guthrie will announce a new Student Data Privacy policy at the Board of Education's meeting Wednesday in Westminster.

Brandon Foster of Liberty High School was awarded second place in the Advanced Viola category of the Washington Performing Arts Society's 44th Annual Joseph and Goldie Feder Memorial String Competition.

Baltimore needs to provide summer opportunities for high-achievers, too.

The Westminster Lions Club will award scholarships to one student at Westminster High School, one at Winter Mills High School and at the Career and Technology School of Carroll County.

Lincoln's assassin was prep school student

For the past three years, while their peers were sleeping in or on vacation, a group of teenagers from across Baltimore City have converged on Digital Harbor High School with a common goal: to face a challenge.

William Castor earns scholarship at Salisbury University

Dickinson College student Madeleine Gardner gets a 2015 First-Year Seminar Excellence in Writing Award.

Dickinson College students on dean's list

Liberal arts schools are enduring an unrelenting attack in the public media. Critics of higher education rail against the excessive cost of a college education and the high rate of student debt and default. In linking college completion with potential income and job skills, liberal arts majors have fallen prey to the old question of "what can you do with that major?"

Students across the county, including those at Cockeysville Middle and Dulaney High, took part in the PTA Reflections Contest by creating original works of arts in various categories based on a common theme which this year was "The world would be a better place if … ."

The Bel Air town commissioners honored multiple people, organizations and events with proclamations Monday, including a senior at The John Carroll School and a former mail carrier who spent more than 30 years delivering mail in downtown Bel Air.

For the first time this school year, Baltimore County Public Schools in conjunction with Kaplan Test Prep, a national educational company, offered a six-week SAT preparatory course for students in nine high schools.

Students Harford County Public Schools and their counterparts across the state are in the midst of an intense spring testing cycle, as they complete the state's first year of PARCC assessment exams.

Parents concerned about the school system's Bring Your Own Device Program in elementary schools, which allows staff and students in grades 3-12 to bring their own digital devices to school, have created an online petition asking that the school system limit device use to during instruction times.

Everyone needs help at some point. That is the message Tori Saylor hopes to convey as keynote speaker at the public school system's sixth annual transition fair on April 10 to students with disabilities enrolled in an individualized education plan.

The executive director of the Maryland Council on Economic Education talks about the nonprofit organization's programs to teach financial literacy to students, and offers some household financial advice of her own

The Westminster Lions Club will award scholarships to one student at Westminster High School, one at Winter Mills High School and at the Career and Technology School of Carroll County.

The Carroll County Forestry Board is accepting applications for the 2015 Natural Resources Careers Camp.

A proposal to eliminate the city's only summer enrichment program for advanced students is stirring debate on the school board.

Two middle school students will put their geographic knowledge to the test as they advance to the statewide competition of the National Geographic Bee on March 27.

News from your neighbors

University of Maryland, College Park students will host a forum on campus Tuesday evening to discuss a racist, sexist email that circulated around campus earlier this month.

Lansdowne High School sophomore Corine White solved an algebra problem with the help of her classmates last Thursday morning in her Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) class, part of a program aimed at closing the achievement gap by preparing students for college.

Carroll County Public Schools will sponsor a Transition Fair from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 10 at Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster.