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The Baltimore school system was among 23 educational organizations from across the nation to be named finalists in a highly competitive U.S. Department of Education program that will dole out nearly $150 million for innovative programming this year.

Families will soon have access to calculators that tell them how much they will have to pay for college.

The number of bullying incidents reported in city schools more than doubled last school year from the year before — a surge that officials attribute, in part, to Shaniya Boyd's story, which thrust Baltimore into a national dialogue about how bullying, once considered a childhood rite of passage, can take a dangerous or deadly turn.

Maryland will not be one of the first states to apply for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind, state education officials said Thursday.

Problems with providers should not deter the effective federally-funded child tutoring program

Harford County Public Schools achieved a graduation rate of 85.7 percent for 2011, a slight increase from the 84.7 percent rate for 2010. It is higher than the statewide rate of 82 percent

Ten Maryland schools have received a National Blue Ribbon designation, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday, an award bestowed on the highest performing schools in the nation with extraordinary success in closing the achievement gap.

Towson High School is one of ten Maryland schools to receive the National Blue Ribbon designation.

Lime Kiln Middle School was named a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, the only school in the Howard Public School System to achieve that honor.

As the school year finally gets underway, public school students across the state will be writing more often and learning to think differently in math class, as the state begins major education reforms that will change everything from the curriculum to how teachers are evaluated.

Just days after the Anne Arundel County branch of the NAACP filed a complaint alleging "disparate treatment" of African-American students and teachers, school board members said the superintendent and school system should be recognized for their continuing efforts to address the matter.

The Anne Arundel County school system has not made sufficient progress in eliminating racial bias from its disciplinary practices, according to a civil rights complaint filed last week by the NAACP.

While students around the state showed progress on the Maryland School Assessment, Baltimore City not only experienced a setback this year with declines in math and reading, but several dozen of the district's schools were among those that performed the worst in the state.

A new teacher evaluation system that takes into account how well students learn their lessons was approved by a gubernatorial task force Monday and will begin to be tested in seven school districts, including Baltimore city and county, in the fall.

Maryland's new teacher evaluation system created as part of its successful Race to the Top competition is complicated and somewhat unwieldy, but the reforms must go ahead without further delay

If the school department felt the official's experience and performance outweighed his lack of formal credentials it should have kept him on and publically explained why it was doing so