WASHINGTON – When Ilhye Yoon began teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in Anne Arundel County four years ago she had five students — today she has 34

WASHINGTON – Maryland schools are prepared for tornadoes, snipers and a nuclear power plant meltdown but random terrorism has officials stumped

WASHINGTON – Brittany Grier was on her way to becoming valedictorian at her high school class when the Wicomico County school board voted in December to abolish class rank

WASHINGTON – Maryland educators are scrambling to make sense of 1,080 pages of requirements that make up the federal No Child Left Behind Act, as a Jan

WASHINGTON – A former Prince George’s County police officer must face civil charges stemming from a 1997 dog attack on an unarmed suspect, but a federal appeals court dismissed the case against four other officers in the same incident

WASHINGTON – Maryland officials are drawing up court papers in support of the University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policy, which President Bush on Wednesday called “divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution

WASHINGTON – Maryland ranks 47th in the nation in the percentage of state aid it provides to public school students, a practice that creates inequity in school funding across the state, according to a recent national report

COLLEGE PARK – Maryland congressional challengers have raised $2 million more this year than they had at this time in the 2000 election, driven by high- profile races in the 8th and 2nd districts and deep-pocketed politicians