The school board approved a $19.5 million contract for a new, research-based reading curriculum.

Howard County bus drivers employed by Zum Transportation Services joined members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1994 to hold a rally ahead of their representation vote scheduled for next week.

Baltimore County Police took a student into custody Friday after a report of an armed individual sent Kenwood High School into a brief lockdown.

Poor conditions at Baltimore City Public Schools reflect a lack of care and concern for the students who attend those schools, students interviewed by Johns Hopkins University researchers say.

The five Dunbar High School students who suddenly became ill on Monday had ingested marijuana, according to Baltimore City Public Schools.

Two of the three students taken to a hospital had been released by Monday evening, school officials said. Two other students had been taken home by their parents.

Correspondence obtained by The Baltimore Banner sheds new light on the missteps that left thousands of students without a ride the first week of school.

Schools in Howard and Montgomery counties are not doing enough to ensure that Palestinian and Muslim students are not intimidated or silenced as tensions heighten during the Middle East crisis, parents of those students say.

A former teacher in Washington, D.C. accused of sexually assaulting a student nearly a decade ago was arrested earlier this week at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Superintendent Myriam Rogers said the new school will serve as a leading example for state environmental efforts, by producing and saving as much — or more — energy than it uses each year.

It’s been years since someone has been shot inside a Baltimore County school building, but threats of danger and a heightened sense of fear on and around campus have persisted.

Howard County’s school board will have to immediately select an interim superintendent.

A group of parents in Howard County are objecting to the Board of Education’s new student transportation policy, saying it is not safe or equitable.

The evaluations will determine whether children are being taught to read in a way that’s backed by research.

The school board voted 5-3 on Wednesday night to approve a plan for new school boundaries. It will result in a change of schools for approximately 6,400 students at some point in the educational process.