WASHINGTON – Rigorous, college-level classes in high school aren’t just for honors students anymore

WASHINGTON – Maryland students are “flying” into Advanced Placement classes, but the number of black and Hispanic students continues to lag behind their white and Asian counterparts

GAITHERSBURG – Angela Conrad remembers staring at her daughter’s kindergarten registration form and trying to decide — was Lyric white like her, or black like her father?

“I checked both white and black on the boxes,” Conrad said

SILVER SPRING – It was one of the last practices before a performance in front of the White House, and the Forest Knolls Elementary School fifth-grade chorus this week was reviewing pitch, tone, lyrics — even how to walk onto the stage

WASHINGTON – It was a code blue day Friday in Anne Arundel County

WASHINGTON – A Frederick man can sue the city over a monument of the Ten Commandments that sits on a parcel formerly owned by the city and visible from a public park, a federal judge has ruled

WASHINGTON – Children are facing a danger in schools, but it’s not guns or drugs

WASHINGTON – Schoolwork takes a holiday on the days leading up to Thanksgiving — and most state school systems don’t fight it

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has upheld the 25-year sentence handed down to an “armed career criminal” after police searched his Baltimore home and found numerous guns

WASHINGTON – Gordon Browning would not be so bothered by the fact that most Maryland schools were open on Veterans Day if he thought teachers took the time to teach students about the importance of the holiday