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Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities recently commissioned a report that showed that their post-graduation results outpace national outcomes for students with disabilities.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded activists nearly 500,000 to offer West Baltimore children holistic services from "cradle to college to career," under the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.

Four Baltimore-area schools, including two in Baltimore County, were among six that earned state Blue Ribbon honors, state Board of Education officials said Thursday.

School that opened in 2001 one of six honored in state

Folly Quarter Middle School in Ellicott City was named one of six Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools in the state, and the only Howard County school to receive the honor this year.

The Maryland State Department of Education unveiled Monday a new way of assessing accountability of each school in Maryland under the waiver that it received from the federal No Child Left Behind act.

Archbishop of Baltimore William Lori joined students, staff and parents at Elkridge's St. Augustine School Friday to celebrate the Mass of Thanksgiving and their achievement of being named a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

A Burleigh Manor Middle School seventh-grader crafted her first full composition, "The Flow of Water," and entered it in an annual National PTA competition. Polly's work won the top national honor for music composition in May and will be among the works exhibited at the U.S. Department of Education.

While many public school systems are gravitating toward the web to reach audiences about programs, the Anne Arundel school system has turned to an older method to inform the public about its efforts to address purported educational disparities — prime-time television.

The Howard County Board of Education Wednesday approved an application to apply for up to $30 million in grant money, but lacks the support of the teachers' union when it comes to Race to the Top.

All 6,000 Baltimore educators will take part this year in a new teacher evaluation system that ties their effectiveness to student performance, school officials announced this week, in preparation for the implementation of the state's more rigorous evaluations next year.

Environmentally friendly schools can be recognized in second year of national program

Boosting student retention and graduation rates at Maryland's historically black colleges and universities requires a data-driven approach

After Regina Friend's son Roswell committed suicide last year, she was at least relieved to know that the loans he took out to pay for his Temple University degree were forgiven. But now, the Cockeysville woman has learned she faces a hefty tax bill on those canceled loans.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $12.2 million to Maryland's four Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski said Monday.

Maryland's new labor secretary will be Leonard Howie, an official at the state Department of Human Resources, the state said Monday.

Ten Maryland schools have been name prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Friday.

St. Augustine School in Elkridge was one of 10 Maryland schools, and the only school in Howard County, to receive a 2012 National Blue Ribbon honor from the U.S. Department of Education.

UMBC students and administrators show how to use politics to bridge differences and strengthen communities.

All Baltimore colleges follow the same federal guidelines for reporting crimes on campus. But hard-to-explain discrepancies raise questions about the value of these reports in giving students and employees a snapshot of campus safety.

Annapolis Middle School teacher Beth Foster trumpets the importance of STEM programs for all students, convinced that science and math disciplines aren't, as she put it, "just for brainiacs."

Suspensions and other disciplinary actions fell at Anne Arundel County schools last year because of new practices, said a school system team examining purported disparities in punishments among African-American students.

Debit cards are a convenient way for students to receive financial aid, but students can find their aid eaten up by fees.

The MdBio Foundation, a private charitable organization for promoting science learning and workforce development, is building an online video game for high school students

Support grows among government agencies to allow private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy.

Maryland was one of eight states granted a waiver Tuesday from some of the strictest requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which will allow the state to set more reasonable goals for student achievement levels and adopt reforms to close the achievement gap.

A Baltimore County woman had $340,000 in student loan debt discharged by a federal bankruptcy judge this month because Asperger's syndrome prevents her from holding a job.

Four MD schools win US "green ribbon" status

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

The backdrop of the recession means that many of these school improvement grant schools have funding to do things they've never done at the same time that they're hamstrung to fund many of the basic things educators typically take for granted.

In the Obama administration's new push to turn around the bottom 5 percent of schools nationwide, the vast majority of districts chose the reform option that seemed the least invasive.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights said that it will investigate allegations by the Anne Arundel branch of the NAACP that the county's school system discriminates against African-American students when meting out discipline.

State education leaders say proposed legislation that would force local school systems to continue funding a federal tutoring program could derail their efforts to gain relief from the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Maryland will receive another infusion of federal funding to continue turnaround efforts in the state's worst schools, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.

North County High School senior Ashely Lim recently received the National Art Education Association (NAEA) 2012 Rising Stars Secondary Recognition Award.

Bosley writes of neighborhood happenings

The speed and breadth of recent alerts demonstrates how seriously schools take the task of informing their community about potential threats, and the challenges they face in deciding when to trigger an alert

Higher education leaders in Maryland praised an effort detailed by President Barack Obama on Friday to make college more affordable but expressed uneasiness about still-emerging details that could have a big impact on federal student aid.

Six schools have been added to the prestigious Maryland list of Blue Ribbon designees after they were recognized as not only the highest performers in the 2011-2012 school year but also for raising achievement of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Except for a delay in a new teacher evaluation program, Maryland has made a strong start toward achieving the ambitious school reform goals that won the state a coveted $250 million grant, federal officials said Monday.

Three Baltimore schools have extended their school day by three hours, using a national program that has boosted achievement in other urban districts and has been hailed as a way to make American students competitive in the 21st century.

Special education advocates are calling for the state to do more to address the bullying of disabled students, saying that a recent lawsuit against the city school system highlights the long-lasting harm that such harassment can do to special-needs children.

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