Kristen Griffith

Both the superintendent and county executive stood united at West Towson Elementary Tuesday afternoon after being on different pages in previous conversations over the school system’s spending plan.

Pine Grove Elementary School was evacuated after an explosive device was found in a car in the parking lot on Tuesday, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident.

Some are now being asked to pay back as much as tens of thousands of dollars.

A wide majority of Maryland residents say public schools should teach about racism in our institutions, according to Goucher College poll.

Three Baltimore County Public School students were arrested after two guns were found on high school campuses.

To fulfill the teachers union contract, the system would need to scrounge up millions for its $1.7 billion operating budget to sustain the higher pay over the next five years.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools is relying on staffing agencies to help with its vacancies. Although working with contractors was not a new concept, teachers were in uproar because contracted teachers were making sometimes double what they were.

The smiling faces of students, teachers and staff reflected the joy of being back to school, with fewer of the masks, protocols and fears that marked the first two years of the pandemic.

Days before Monday’s classroom return, parents said pickup times that the system sent are scheduled after, or close to, the times that school starts. They are also still haunted by last year’s issues that resulted in bus driver no-shows or late drop-offs.

Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.

Maryland’s student school board members have become increasingly vocal about the limits on their voting authority, lobbying for more voting rights.

Baltimore County was a steppingstone for people like Thurgood Marshall, who tried integrating a Black student to the then-all-white Catonsville High School before the famous Brown v. Board of Education case; pitstops for presidents Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy before they took over The White House; and the birthplace of Benjamin Banneker.

The National Park Service is conducting a study on the President Street Station that includes a 45-day public comment period that started Aug. 15 and ends Sept. 30.

The teacher shortage and students’ experiences from the past couple years leave parents worried about the coming school year and questioning if their children’s needs will be met.

The money would cover raises for just one year, and the school system would need to scrounge up millions more within its existing budget to sustain the higher pay in subsequent years without added cost to taxpayers.