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Jemicy, a school focused on educating students with dyslexia and related language-based learning differences, features 39 arts courses. The school's industrial design course helps prepare students to compete in the American Visionary Art Museum's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Photo courtesy of Jemicy School)
Sep 10, 2024

Calibrating creativity and competition: The rise of fine arts in MD private schools

While academics and athletics often dominate, what role do fine arts programs play in attracting students to Maryland’s private high schools?

Safety and security has become a big issue for schools across Maryland. Private schools are no different and many have hired former local, state or federal law enforcement officers as part of their security teams. (Depositphotos)
Sep 9, 2024

MD private schools ramp up safety provisions amid rise of violence

Maryland private schools have ramped up security measures in response to increased school violence.

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Sep 6, 2024

Anti-affirmative action group has standing to sue Naval Academy, judge rules

Students for Fair Admissions has standing to sue the U.S. Naval Academy over its admissions policy, a judge ruled.

Olivia Carson, then a 15-year-old sophomore, of Glenburn, Maine, left, stands with her mother Amy outside the Crosspoint Church-affiliated Bangor Christian Schools on Aug. 28, 2018. in Bangor, Maine. (Gabor Degre/The Bangor Daily News via AP, File)
Sep 5, 2024

Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says

A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that required Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is appealing a ruling.

Adjovi Golo holds a laptop at DePaul University in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2024. Golo filed a paper FAFSA in June to try to get a finalized aid package from DePaul, but was told that the agency had a backlog of paper filings. Golo said the school has not required her to start paying until the paperwork is processed. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Aug 29, 2024

Botched college financial aid form snarls enrollment plans for students

After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid.

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware, on Oct. 21, 2022. A federal appeals court has allowed the U.S. Education Department to move ahead with a plan to lower monthly payments for millions of student loans borrowers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Aug 28, 2024

Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore student debt plan

The Supreme Court kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers.

Aug 27, 2024

Audit shows millions lost, little oversight between UMGC and school-backed entities

Legislators may reconsider allowing universities to create and partially fund “businesses entities” meant to benefit the state after one institution cost taxpayers millions because of an abandoned project.

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Aug 26, 2024

MD Public Television to host 5th annual HBCU Week in September

Maryland Public Television (MPT) will celebrate historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in September.

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Aug 26, 2024

Exelon Foundation launches free STEM Academy for high school boys at University of Maryland

Baltimore-based Exelon and The Exelon Foundation kicked off the inaugural Boys to STEM Academy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mannika Hopkins talks with her fourth graders on the first day of school at Greenville Elementary in Greenville, Florida, on Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)
Aug 22, 2024

School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schools

Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive expansion in school choice.

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Aug 22, 2024

Loyola University MD Sellinger School launches accelerated graduate business programs

Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management announced the introduction of two new accelerated graduate programs.

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Aug 21, 2024

Health Tech Alley, MD Apprenticeship Connector launch first youth program

Health Tech Alley announced the launch of its Business Analytics, Data Science and AI Youth Apprenticeship Program.