WASHINGTON – A federal district court judge refused Wednesday to reduce the nearly $20 million award that Legg Mason was ordered to pay last year for infringing on the copyright of a financial newsletter publisher

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s charter school law was ranked seventh-weakest in the country in a new report that said the state gives local school districts too much control over charter schools

WASHINGTON – Maryland community college representatives came to Capitol Hill Tuesday looking for money for new facilities and a more dependable source of funding in the face of state budget cuts

WASHINGTON – Most Maryland public school students can expect to be sitting in class a few extra days this summer to make up for several recent school closures

WASHINGTON – School districts around the state will offer up to two service-learning hours to students who join teachers, administrators and parents at a rally Monday in Annapolis to support Thornton education funding

WASHINGTON – Kids weren’t the only ones waiting anxiously every morning this week to see if schools were closed: For school-based day care center operators, snow days can mean more work, not less

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud convictions of two men who falsified electrical work orders at Census headquarters in Suitland, and ordered one of the men back to lower court for a harsher sentence

WASHINGTON – The omnibus spending bill that cleared the Senate Thursday includes almost $500 million for projects throughout Maryland — the fourth-largest amount of “earmarked” appropriations in the country

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ruled that employees of the U

WASHINGTON – Local school superintendents have voted overwhelmingly to oppose the Maryland State Board of Education’s proposed two-tier diploma system for students who fail a planned high school exit examination