ANNAPOLIS – The House of Delegates has scrapped a plan to cut student costs by eliminating a tax on textbooks, converting the bill into a plan to create a bulk book buying consortium to reduce prices

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s primary child care resources should move into the Department of Education because learning begins long before kindergarten starts, child care advocates told lawmakers in two days of hearings this week on a relocation proposal

ANNAPOLIS – When Rita Howarth’s daughter experienced her third fainting spell at age 3, she couldn’t tell the doctor her daughter had been exposed to water contamination at Fallston Pre-kindergarten in Harford County

ANNAPOLIS – It’s not unusual that programs associated with elementary, middle and high schools are part of the Maryland State Department of Education

ANNAPOLIS – At least University of Maryland fans are winning in the political arena these days

ANNAPOLIS – Land preservation and a nearly $4 billion backlog in school construction would get much needed boosts from the end of a corporate tax loophole, under a bill passed by the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday

ANNAPOLIS –

Child care advocates appealed to lawmakers Tuesday to keep intact the $103

ANNAPOLIS – Genora Brown has been a homeowner for five years after accepting a $3,000 incentive to live closer to her work, but others haven’t had the same opportunity since the program that provided the grant closed in 2003

ANNAPOLIS – New federal high school graduation requirements put Ken Vest’s son in danger of not graduating this year, he told Maryland lawmakers this week at a hearing on a bill to help the teen and other learning disabled students

ANNAPOLIS – Terrapin Pride Day Tuesday in Annapolis could not have come at a better time for the University of Maryland