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The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners opted Tuesday to end a virtual online program’s services for elementary students and to close Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West. Charm City Virtual will no longer teach students in second through fifth grades. Students from the PORT Virtual Learning Program, which currently serves Baltimore high schoolers, will join Charm City Virtual’s ...

Threads from the decision to change insurance providers for Arlington Public Schools staff continue to unravel. When APS entered a new contract with CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield this year, ending a 36-year relationship with Kaiser Permanente this September, it drew the ire of teachers, retired and active. Stressed by having to find new providers

BALTIMORE -- Until the middle of January, Ryan took the bus to school. The junior at Lansdowne High School walked into the blue, silver and brick building, where he saw his friends, took Advanced Placement classes and sometimes stayed late to participate in the Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. But after the 16-year-old made threats and was suspended, he spent the majority of his ...

Baltimore County assigned 133 students to its Virtual Learning Program as a means of punishment, which experts say is opposite of what students facing discipline need to keep them engaged and enrolled.

Being a teacher can be difficult, and it became even tougher in recent years when the COVID-19 pandemic was causing students to learn from home much of the time.