WASHINGTON – The amount of school loans taken out by Maryland college students jumped 50 percent between 1995 and 1998, as grants and scholarships failed to keep pace with rising tuition costs

WASHINGTON – Seventeen education and ethnic organizations this week urged the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that the Montgomery County school system could not use race as a factor in student transfer decisions

WASHINGTON – Maryland has no chance of sharing in the $175 million that President Clinton has proposed spending for charter schools because the state does not have legislation regulating such schools, state officials said

WASHINGTON – Maryland House incumbents have just under $3 million on hand for their re-election campaigns, 20 times as much as their challengers had in the bank at the end of 1999, according to campaign finance reports

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s education programs parallel the school initiatives proposed by President Clinton in his State of the Union address Thursday, said state officials, who hope that will increase their shot at a share of billions in new federal aid

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Baltimore City Police Department does not have to pay lost military wages and benefits to police officers who were restricted from joining the National Guard or Reserves before 1986

WASHINGTON – The Army said formally Friday that it will dispose of a group of Forest Glen buildings, raising fears among neighbors that a piece of Maryland history could be destroyed

WASHINGTON – Maryland aced the test for school standards and accountability but received an F for school climate in a study released Wednesday by a national education magazine