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Baltimore City Public Schools

Dissatisfaction with top incumbents follows voters’ views of the direction of the city but most remain optimistic about the future.

Baltimore residents and local officials told state lawmakers that they want to see legislation improving public transportation, education, public safety and decriminalizing drug use…

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited a public school in Baltimore on Wednesday morning, urging districts throughout the state to do everything they can…

Maryland spends up to $1 billion on teacher professional development every year, but there is little to no data showing that teachers improve in…

Baltimore City Public Schools are failing their 80,000 students at an exorbitantly-high cost. State and local taxpayers spend nearly $16,000 per pupil on education,…

Since the Maryland General Assembly passed a multi-billion-dollar education reform bill a year later than intended, the presiding officers are seeking a complementary bill…

Clean Power

Some lawmakers are confronting the climate crisis by targeting school buildings, one of the largest energy consumers in local jurisdictions. There are already three…

Governor Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and State Superintendent Karen B. Salmon urged local school systems to begin hybrid in-person learning by March 1….

In an effort to expedite COVID-19 vaccine access to teachers, Baltimore City Public Schools partnered with Johns Hopkins Medicine to begin vaccinating teachers and…

By Maria Trovato and Kamisha Walker Outside Henderson-Hopkins School in East Baltimore every Friday, cars line up for blocks and people pushing carts walk…