EDUCATION

Mildred García will become the next chancellor of California State University, the first Latina to lead the nation’s largest public university system.

This series examines who and what drive objections to K-12 texts amid a culture war over what children should read.

Incoming Prince George's County Public Schools Superintendent Millard House II announced the new security measures during a wide-ranging news conference Tuesday.

Bowie State University said it has raised $50 million to support scholarships, building renovations and other initiatives at the historically Black college.

Maryland Treasurer Dereck E. Davis said he will retroactively apply a 6 percent earnings rate to accounts in the state’s prepaid college savings trust. Maryland 529 suspended earnings on 31,000 prepaid accounts last year, citing a calculation error.

Wayde Byard, the longtime Loudoun County Public Schools official acquitted of perjury, is writing his next chapter on his own terms.

The affirmative action debate misses the fact that most kids just want a good education, and high schools are improving their ability to provide it.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed three new members to the board of education on Friday evening. He has now appointed eight of the nine members.

Some legal experts predict college scholarships and other financial aid could be the next legal battle after the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pledges free tuition for in-state residents whose families make $80,000 a year or less.

U..S. prosecutors said Taylor Taranto live-streamed himself and others entering a gymnasium and displaying a Jan. 6-related film at Piney Branch Elementary School in Takoma Park.

At the University of Maryland, he started a historic preservation program to get students hands-on experience.

A civil rights group petitions the Biden administration to force the university to stop giving an admissions preference to children of alumni.

None of the options to retain and increase racial diversity — from eliminating legacy preferences to reducing slots for athletes — is simple.

Some parents say elementary schoolers have no business reading books involving sexual orientation and gender identity — topics they say should be handled by parents at home.

New York City Public Schools hopes to improve students’ mental health with daily breathing exercises, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

Digital Pioneers Academy's founder and chief executive Mashea M. Ashton says this city is not safe and has begged parents to keep their kids indoors this summer.

Decades later, the Supreme Court justice compared affirmative action to Jim Crow-era laws, saying the programs were used to justify segregation and slavery.