Unhappy parents, teachers and education activists are pushing to put new faces on the Howard County school board in Tuesday's election. Howard's schools have long enjoyed a reputation as among Maryland's best, but critics say board members and the superintendent too often act without public input...
A Morgan State University administrator is the newest appointee to the Baltimore City school board. Michelle Harris Bondima, who serves as statewide coordinator of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University, began her tenure Tuesday night. Before joining Morgan,...
A well-respected Maryland State School board member quit Tuesday, saying he believed Gov. Larry Hogan had usurped the power of the independent board when he issued an executive order requiring schools to start after Labor Day. James Gates, a University of Maryland physicist who has served for seven...
Former Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith and his wife, Chanel, will visit Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in East Baltimore Wednesday for a panel conversation on issues facing young black males in the city. The Smiths will join a wide slate of panelists at the "Conversations for Change" event,...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute has been pumping out top math and science students for more than a century. So perhaps it isn't surprising that the elite city high school has the highest pass rate of any in the region on the state's tough new Algebra I exam. But those Poly engineers don't do badly...
Dazhnae Nixon has been tinkering with computers and cellphones since she was 8 years old, taking them apart and fixing them for friends and family. This fall, the 15-year-old freshman at Carver-Vocational Technical High School is among the first students in a new six-year program called Pathways...
Cole Field House, the storied basketball arena at the University of Maryland, hosted hundreds of games during its half century as home to Terrapins hoops. Now it will house a state-of-the-art new center dedicated to cutting-edge research into concussions and other sports injuries. Officials from...
SquashWise, an after school youth enrichment program that helps Baltimore students develop the mental and physical discipline to achieve academically through playing squash, has won the prestigious 2016 Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award. The annual award, administered by the Johns Hopkins Urban Health...
The University System of Maryland has come up with a way to help liberal arts students who struggle with algebra. Encourage them to take statistics instead. University system administrators are using a $3 million federal grant this fall to launch a pilot remedial statistics course at a dozen two-year...
A state audit of the Howard County Public School System found limited financial controls led to the approval of millions of dollars in salaries, mileage expenses and construction projects without proper approval or procurement. The findings, were released by the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits...
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A former Towson University student charged in a fraternity hazing incident that left a pledge hospitalized has gotten probation before judgment. Court records show 21-year-old Evan Francis of Olney was granted probation before judgment on Monday. He had been charged with hazing...
Gov. Larry Hogan issued a second executive order Tuesday that makes it difficult for school systems to avoid starting school after Labor Day by seeking a waiver. The order comes after the state board was offering waivers from Hogan's mandate and as many local school officials protested, saying...
High school graduation rates have reached a record high of 83.2 percent, continuing a steady increase that shows improvement across all ethnic groups, the White House said Monday. President Barack Obama planned to talk about the gains when he visits a Washington, D.C. high school on Monday morning....
Hundreds of Baltimore city teachers saturated the district’s headquarters in yellow Tuesday night in solidarity with their union leaders who say that contract negotiations have failed. The teachers packed the boardroom and overflow rooms, clad in yellow union T-shirts, for a school board meeting...
In a test of its independence, the Baltimore County School Board on Tuesday will review three different school calendar options for next year, including one that completely disregards Gov. Larry Hogan's recent mandate to start all public schools after Labor Day. There's the calendar that starts...
Michael J. Klag has announced that he plans to step down as dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in June after 12 years on the job. "I do think it is good to change leadership," he said Monday. "It is good for institutions to have different viewpoints and somebody to come...
A recent grant to 10 Baltimore-area colleges and universities will be used to work toward better prevention and response to sexual violence. McDaniel College, along with nine other colleges and universities, together received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to "generate new...
Across busy Hillen Road from Morgan State University there stands a worn brick wall. The aging barrier is a vestige of the era when the school's mostly white neighbors wanted to keep its black students out of their community. Now, as Morgan officials discuss ways to improve security after the stabbing...
In a matter of months during his fourth-grade year at Waverly Elementary School in Baltimore, Martin Walker Jr. went from being an average student in his first two quarters to an honor-roll member in his final two marking periods. His father credits the staff and the education courses at St. Francis...
A student at the University of Maryland, College Park was extorted out of an undisclosed amount of money after someone threatened to post nude pictures of him on Facebook, University of Maryland police said Sunday. The student reported to campus police on Sunday that he sent the scammer some money...
A student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County was found dead on the Catonsville campus early Sunday morning, police said. Police identified the student as Eric Thomas Askins, 17, of Hollywood in St. Mary's County. Police said there were no signs of foul play and said the cause of death...
Seven students were charged in a brawl Thursday morning at Annapolis High School, county police said. The fight occurred in an upstairs hallway around 7:10 a.m. as hundreds of students were preparing to attend their first class of the day. Two students began to fight spawning additional scuffles,...