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Monday was Darryl Williams first day at the helm of a district with a $1.6 billion budget, 18,000 employees, 174 schools and 113,000 students.

How can Baltimore County justify raising taxes for education when school system is so flagrantly wasting money on Verletta White?

Verletta White, the Baltimore County's interim superintendent, will be paid $232,700 to be a consultant for a year. Her contract acknowledges the awkwardness.

Catonsville High graduate Erin Kreis didn't expect to be singled out by interim Superintendent Verletta White — and awarded $1,000 — at her commencement.

After two years leading the Baltimore County school system, Verletta White will advise her successor on how to slow the rate of teacher turnover.

Baltimore County's school board is expected to vote in public session to give Interim Superintendent Verletta White a job in the school system.

Darryl Williams, Baltimore County's new superintendent will earn $290,000 beginning July 1, under a contract approved by the school board Tuesday.

Baltimore County school officials are investigating who may have gained access to searchable files since May 29

Baltimore County NAACP is calling on Maryland House of Delegates officials to look into a state lawmaker's Facebook comment they say evokes lynching.

The Baltimore County School Board found its moral compass in choosing not to keep Verletta White as superintendent.

Darryl L. Williams might just be the A-level talent Baltimore County Public Schools need but the school board earns failing grades for its secretive approach.

Baltimore County Public Schools officials announced this week that the longtime Montgomery County administrator would take over for Verletta White.

The Baltimore County school board will interview six finalists for superintendent this month in a selection process challenged by a short timeline, discord.

The $1,000 annual scholarship will be awarded to a female graduating senior who shows interest in Alzheimer's research.

The Sun's editorial board glosses over real problems in Baltimore County schools in order to endorse Verletta White as superintendent.

Verletta White is the best hope for BCPS to overcome its scandalous past as well as its current dysfunctional school board.

A long-awaited audit of the Baltimore County school system’s contracts under the former superintendent found one significant failing: that staff and board members did not disclose personal financial information in a timely way.

The biggest revelation in Baltimore County Public Schools audit - you know, the one that was supposed to depose interim Superintendent Verletta White - is that there are no big revelations.

The tour of the most deteriorated high school facility in Baltimore County is part of County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.'s efforts to support the Build to Learn Act, currently in the state Senate.

Baltimore County Public Schools Interim Superintendent White deserves to be awarded the job permanently.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and the interim superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, Verletta White, should resign over unethical behavior.

Baltimore County school board has yet to offer a valid reason to withhold audit results - perhaps because there isn't one.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. calls for a school district audit to be made public and says the school board won't release it to him.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said "everything is on the table" when it comes to addressing the county's projected budget deficit.

Baltimore County will hold 10 meetings in three days in March to give the public an opportunity to weigh in on search for new school superintendent.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski called for cuts to school budget within hours after it was passed Tuesday night.

In a rare show of unity at the Baltimore County school board meeting Tuesday night, dozens of parents, teachers and administrators encouraged the school board to ask for what students need rather than the slimmed-down budget that meets the county executive’s fiscal limits.

Teachers are expected to protest the lack of raises in the proposed county school budget at Tuesday night's Baltimore County school board meeting.

Verletta White, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, recently cut $85 million from her own budget proposal at the direct expense of teachers and students.  Machines, however, make out quite well.

The percentage of children entering kindergarten ready to learn is inching up in Maryland, although still less than half are deemed ready.

Baltimore County teachers say they will protest a revised school budget which gives them little pay increases.

Interim Superintendent Verletta White proposed reducing the number of computer devices used by students in kindergarten through second grade.

The ambitious laptop program in Baltimore County schools has yet to show the results many had hoped for. Despite the saturation of technology, Baltimore County ranks near the bottom of the state in passing rates on standardized tests.

Maryland released its first star ratings for every public school Tuesday, with results that showed 60 percent of schools earned three or four stars out of five.

More information is needed about why Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon declined to reappoint Verletta White to  superintendent of schools in Baltimore County.

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.

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.

During a Listening and Learning stop Oct. 2 at Catonsville High and as Baltimore County Public Schools develops a plan to address overcrowding in high schools including redistricting, interim Superintendent Verletta White said understands importance of neighborhood connections.

Sage Policy Group CEO Anirban Basu presented three options for reducing high school overcrowding Tuesday evening, but county residents said the do not have enough information to make a decision.

The marker commemorates 1935, the year in which black students Margaret Williams and Lucille Scott were denied admittance to Catonsville High School, from which followed a lawsuit that was a step on the road to Brown v. Board of Education.

Baltimore City will close more than 60 schools three hours early on Wednesday, and the county will keep eight schools and two centers closed for the day.

A shooting is still the rarest of events for a school, but attacks last spring in Maryland and Florida have prompted school districts across the state to take more steps to prevent such a tragedy.

Baltimore County needs to further expand eligibility for free and reduced price meals.

Baltimore County superintendent: When our schools reopen this fall, students at all schools who qualify for free or reduced-price meals will receive breakfast and lunch at no cost to families. Those who don't, wont. Here's why.

A move to provide free meals to some 9,500 students in 19 Baltimore County public schools is getting resistance over concerns it could result in less federal money for the system’s most needy students.

Baltimore County school board votes on the details of Verletta White's contract to be interim superintendent for another year.

A decision on whether Cromwell Valley Elementary stays a regional magnet, becomes a neighborhood magnet with definitive boundaries or loses its magnet status altogether won't be known until December, when BCPS's magnet task force makes its recommendations, but until then, parents have taken a proactive stand although they are not unified in their goals for the future of the school.