Baltimore City is offering up to $5,000 over two months to help essential federal workers and families on SNAP with child care costs. But there are already hundreds of families in line. Here's how you can join them: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Gov. Moore promised to send more police to Baltimore. What happened?

State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened

Baltimore County dominates Maryland’s top 10 schools of 2025

The quality of Maryland public schools is getting better. That’s according to the star ratings released by the Maryland State Department of Education today. Search our database, created by @invisibae.bsky.social, to see how your school performed. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order

Baltimore County gym teacher awaiting trial on sex abuse charges fights termination. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Ex-Pikesville High principal impersonated in racist AI case settles lawsuit. (w/ @kris10griffith.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Happy Halloween! Since I can trace my horror fascination back as far as I remember, I wanted to find the Maryland kids who love all things scary, strange and creepy. They really didn't disappoint. www.thebanner.com/community/fa...

Morgan State University President David Wilson got a mysterious phone call at the start of October: a confidential high profile donor was interested in giving to the HBCU. Two weeks later, $63 million was in the university’s bank account. Here’s what happened: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

White's Ferry is more than a quaint historic site. For the Poolesville, Md. community, it was an economic and transit lifeline. It's been closed for five years due to a dispute between two Va. landowners, and business owners and residents are hurting. My latest: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

How ‘driving while Black’ persists in Baltimore County

Baltimore County school gun detection system mistook a bag of chips for a weapon, @kris10griffith.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Had fun thinking out loud about the Baltimore harbor's huge, maybe historic? pistachio tide with Lindsay Smith Rogers at Johns Hopkins. A year ago, Lindsay did a deep dive into Baltimore's progress toward a swimmable harbor. Things have felt different the last few weeks...

A man who was pardoned by President Trump on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was arrested last week after allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York).

This story is the kind of reporting that brought me to The Banner. When @kris10griffith.bsky.social and I found out we were both interested in the efficacy of inspector general oversight of school systems, it was a dream collaboration. Check it out: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Do you ever get so overwhelmed at work you need to take a walk to clear your head? It happens to kids, too, which is why they should go outside, play and learn naturally from the world around them. Click for the cute pictures, keep reading for the brain science www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

“This is very much an all-hands-on-deck sort of battlefield triage,” Earl Stoddard, the county’s assistant chief administrative officer, said of cuts to federal grant programs www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

HAPPY SUBWAY BUILDER DAY We have spent the week playing with the game that has captured transit nerds' hearts. We spoke with Colin Miller, the game's creator, about why he built the game and how it can help us dream about better transit in Baltimore. www.thebanner.com/community/tr...

NEW: A few weeks ago, @muckrock.com shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Scoop: Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, is accused of plagiarizing parts of her 1986 dissertation. Read about the accusation against the HBCU president, and see a side by side comparison, only in @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Missing paychecks, incorrect payments and withholding errors have burdened hundreds of Baltimore County Public Schools educators in the last month, reports @kris10griffith.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

The child care scholarship is the main way Maryland families get help with child care. Since many can't afford it otherwise, day cares and preschools rely on vouchers to fill spots. So what happens when the program gets frozen - and doesn't come back when predicted? www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Howard County kids lose access to Dolly Parton’s free books program amid funding woes

Overall, 438.9 positions were eliminated to save millions, school officials reported. Just over 300 of those positions came from inside schools. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

The national Blue Ribbon program has come to an end. @mayaklora.bsky.social wrote about what Maryland educators had to say about it. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

It's been over five years since the onset of COVID-19, which means the babies born into the pandemic are off to pre-K 4 and kindergarten. How exactly can teachers support these kiddos, who spent their earliest years in isolation? I dug into it: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Maryland is one of more than a dozen states that still criminalize adultery. It's a misdemeanor — punishable by a $10 fine. Since 2015, at least eight people have been charged with the offense, according to data from the Maryland Judiciary. (🎨: Yifan Luo) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

The top Democratic leaders of the Maryland General Assembly – House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson – were both targeted by bomb threats at their homes today. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Informative read by @kris10griffith.bsky.social & Nori Leybengrub

Censure of Baltimore County school board member 'defies reason,' state rules www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Want to know how your kid's school performed? Check out this database created by @thebaltimorebanner.com's data team: www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

English Language Arts continues to be Maryland’s strongest subject. The same can’t be said for math, where just over a quarter of students are considered proficient, but test-takers still managed to move the needle. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Hardest secret I’ve ever had to keep — today is my first day as the Montgomery County Government and Politics Reporter for Baltimore Banner’s new Montgomery County bureau! I couldn’t be more excited to join this incredible team while continuing to cover the county. Stay tuned for our launch date! 🗞️

Happy first day of school!

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

Some 500 to 600 students who did not qualify for income-based state grants received them because of a “system error,” the Maryland Higher Education Commission said. By @elliew0lfe.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

DENVER (AP) — Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.

More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.

The all-white school board’s is the latest in what some see as a drumbeat of right wing actions taken in recent years by conservatives who join Maryland’s nonpartisan school boards. More than 200 people gathered for a rally ahead of the Aug. 7 meeting in Calvert County.

Federal education officials have opened an investigation into the Baltimore City schools for anti-semitism following a complaint by the Anti-Defamation League filed last month. By @lizbowie.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

Head Start, the child tax credit, extra English help: These are all things undocumented and kids in mixed-status families stand to lose under the 2nd Trump admin. Anti-immigrant rhetoric & increased deportations are eating away at kids' mental health www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/ea...

Tubing down the Gunpowder River is the perfect way to spend a summer day— except when E. coli levels are soaring, as they have frequently this year. I spent time with the Gunpowder Riverkeepers to see how they’re working to protect the river. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/gunpowder-ri...

A great read by @kris10griffith.bsky.social in @thebaltimorebanner.com about how a local author is contending with book bans and the Supreme Court decision in the Montgomery County parents case: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

The Anti-Defamation League filed a federal civil rights complaint against Baltimore City Public Schools last week, saying Jewish students have been subjected to “persistent discrimination and harassment.” @lizbowie.bsky.social + @kris10griffith.bsky.social: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

The largest cuts to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history don't explicitly target kids - but they're likely to feel the pain when the adults who care for them lose benefits. Here's what social services experts are most worried about www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/ea...

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The application of Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School was approved by the county school board last year, but a May report from Baltimore County government revealed that a charter agreement was never executed. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

NEW: Research proves empirical what @lizbowie.bsky.social and I heard from many Baltimore City students: Long and complicated commutes on public transit limit their options even in Baltimore's universal school choice system. We spoke with the researchers. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...