ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland State Department of Education passed a recommendation Wednesday that would restructure high school graduation requirements and create a two-tier diploma system

ANNAPOLIS – While the history of Thanksgiving hasn’t changed much since the Pilgrims bowed their heads over their bountiful harvest in 1621, schools are increasingly teaching about the holiday from other points of view, especially multicultural perspectives

ANNAPOLIS – Enoch Bevel, the first of his six siblings to attend college, joined three of his Montgomery College classmates Thursday night to talk to lawmakers about the detrimental effect rising tuition has on their prospects

COLLEGE PARK – Financial aid is so important and complex that it should be studied separately from tuition policy, a panel of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents concluded in a report to the full board

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland colleges and universities are being asked to direct more of their institutional aid to needy students in a resolution passed Wednesday by the Maryland Higher Education Commission

ANNAPOLIS – School construction officials criticized a draft proposal from a government restructuring commission that suggested merging public school construction under the Maryland Stadium Authority

ANNAPOLIS – Prince George’s County schools face low test scores, a serious achievement gap and a school board that is still shaking out from a major overhaul

ANNAPOLIS – Tuition at Maryland’s public universities may rise by an average of 10 percent next school year, after the hikes won approval Thursday from the finance committee of University System of Maryland Board of Regents

ANNAPOLIS – Laura and Courtney Douglas, both teenagers, may not be thinking about the cost of their college educations, but their father is

ANNAPOLIS – The University System of Maryland is considering scrapping and replacing its tuition formula, according to a draft report from a tuition task force presented at Wednesday’s Board of Regents meeting