9+ hour, 57+ min ago   (392+ words) The party at Towson University, cloaked in cannabis smoke and packed with underage drinkers, grew to about 400 people the night Catherine Torney was shot. At one point, the DJ stopped playing music and yelled at the crowd because the partiers…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (681+ words) In Howard County, students who do well continue to excel, while those who underperform fall further behind. That's the problem Howard County Superintendent Bill Barnes wants to tackle with his proposed spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (880+ words) The audio clip that rocked Harford County Public Schools this week spread from the Facebook page of a Towson law firm with no ties to the school system. Adele Brockmeyer, a partner at Turnbull Brockmeyer Law Group, on Monday posted…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (873+ words) On the last Friday evening of fall classes, the University System of Maryland released a one-page letter announcing the president of its flagship campus was cleared of allegations he plagiarized portions of a paper he co-authored in 2002. Mike Sandler, a…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (332+ words) The Harford County school board placed Superintendent Sean Bulson on temporary paid leave, the board president announced Wednesday evening on Facebook. The board, Aaron Poynton wrote, "ordered an independent investigation into the entire matter." The validity of the audio has…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (422+ words) Anne Arundel Superintendent of Schools Mark Bedell this week announced an immediate hiring freeze, citing growing financial pressures as work on next year's budget gets underway. The new directive only affects positions in the school district's central and satellite offices…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (699+ words) Montgomery County schools are fielding far more requests for public records than in previous years " and now want to hire more staffers to handle them. Complying with laws on transparency, it seems, can get expensive. The public school system is…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (726+ words) Uncertainty always played a part in Beth Bell's career. Afterall, she was used to being a trendsetter. She was part of the second graduating class from the now-famous Baltimore School for the Arts. When her classmates studied acting, she pursued…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (869+ words) While Maryland public school buildings were shuttered by the pandemic in fall 2020, thousands of parents yanked their kids out entirely to homeschool them. They may have thought it was a temporary solution during unprecedented times. But many kids never went…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (788+ words) It's been nearly a year since a Banner investigation revealed just how hard it is for Baltimore children to get to school on time " and the devastating consequences of that decades-old struggle. City and school system leaders want the state…...