Baltimore school system officials and charter leaders are at odds over how to address an anticipated funding disparity — an issue that led to a contentious court battle five years ago. In the district's proposed fiscal year 2012 budget — expected to be adopted by the school board Tuesday — charters will receive $9,300 per pupil, compared with the traditional schools' $5,000 per pupil.
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Database shows the percentage of students who scored at advanced or proficient level on reading, math tests
Urgency drives Andrés Alonso. He has been given uncommon power to reshape Baltimore's dysfunctional schools to make them work for,...
Remembering the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that desegregated U.S. public schools
At Cradlerock School in Columbia, it was a day for reading, riding and arithmetic. Dozens of students, parents, teachers and staff...
Gov. Martin O'Malley has appointed two new members to the Baltimore County school board, only days after he told two current members who...
Most of the artwork that will be displayed Sunday on the grounds of a restored 18th-century mansion on Back River began as debris...
Catherine E. Drenner has been helping children cross the street at the neighborhood elementary school in Arbutus for a half-century and...
When Tomi Williams moved to Howard County from Ann Arbor, Mich., as a sixth-grader, he made a huge effort to make new friends. Sometimes, he...
Baltimore County school board President Earnest A. Hines said Tuesday that he is contesting a decision by Gov. Martin O'Malley to remove him...
For the first time, Washington College gives out literary prize outside of commencement
An 11-year-old student at Collington Square Elementary/Middle School was shot in the chest with a BB gun on Monday evening, city school...
A developer's plan to build a $23 million school in Anne Arundel County in exchange for approval of a large-scale residential project got...
A month shy of his 16th birthday, Ty Hobson-Powell made history Sunday when he walked across the stage at The Lyric as the youngest person...
Gaetana Vitale was excited to start in the fall at Anne Arundel Community College studying pre-veterinarian science — until she says...
Program turns city landmarks into playgrounds and cultural institutions into classrooms
Advocates say teaching job cuts could lead to push for more accountability as pressure grows on district to restore positions
Yash P. Gupta, founding dean of the Carey Business School at the Johns Hopkins University, will step down at the end of this academic year...
Kimberly Dozier, the former CBS News correspondent who survived a Baghdad car bomb attack in 2006, delivered the keynote address at the...
Malcolm Taylor never took any math classes in high school.