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Giving parents the funding to pick schools benefits students and can help public schools improve.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two major school worker unions are jointly advocating for pay increases, incentives to lure new teachers to the state, additional mental health support for students and

The D.C. Parental Choice Incentive Act would enable low-incomeparents in the District of Columbia to enroll their children inprivate schools through a scholarship program administered by theU.S. Department of Education. The need for this reform is clear:Just 6 percent of D.C. 4th graders are proficient in math, and only10 percent are proficient in reading.

Patrick Kelly, a teacher at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, and the current Chair of the National Assessment Governing Board’s (NAGB) Assessment Design Committee, will present on the 2022 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) at the EOC’s February 13, 2023 meeting. NAGB is a group of 26 individuals created by Congress in 1988 to set policy for the NAEP, often referred to as the “Nation’s Report Card” since it is the only common measure given to stude...

A once-in-a-generation influx of money is allowing education advocates to debate reforms to a school system that has underperformed for decades

Welcome to The Baltimore Sun’s 25 Black Marylanders to Watch for 2023. To celebrate Black History Month, we’ve assembled a group of people whose fortitude, leadership, artistry and efforts to uplift Baltimore and the state of Maryland make them worth watching.

Welcome to The Baltimore Sun’s 25 Black Marylanders to Watch for 2023. To celebrate Black History Month, we’ve assembled a group of people whose fortitude, leadership, artistry and efforts to uplift Baltimore and the state of Maryland make them worth watching.

Education choice policies expand educational opportunity for rural families while spurring rural district schools to improve their performance.

Did urban students lose ground academically because of COVID? Yes, but probably to a lesser extent than suburbanites.

"Children still have not recovered the learning that they lost out on at the start of the pandemic," one of the study's authors said.