LOCAL EDUCATION

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Former Montgomery County Public Schools Transportation Director Todd Watkins pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of misconduct in office.

The professor had directed female students to remove their shirts.

Educators at the D.C. school issued a statement with a long list of misconduct claims. A petition from parents soon echoed their request for his removal.

A demonstration in Montgomery County drew several hundred people who believe students should be able to opt out of reading books that feature LGBTQ characters.

The Fairfax County School Board on Monday night approved salary increases for new board members and a long-awaited “Educational Equity” policy.

At Coates Elementary, a school that has students from 43 different countries of origin and 37 household languages, the Family Academy starts with the basics.

Set to be implemented by the 2025-2026 school year, the standards will also teach students how to be civically engaged, critique sources and identify misinformation.

Every D.C. public and charter student will have to take classes on menstrual health making D.C. the first jurisdiction in the country with statewide standards, officials said

The Va. Attorney General's Office has accused suspended Loudoun County schools' spokesman Wayde Byard of lying to a grand jury about a pair of sexual assaults.

The D.C. attorney general and Georgetown University agreed to the settlement involving overtime practices in a deal announced Tuesday.

The lack of agreement on the state budget has left Virginia school systems unsure about how much extra funding to expect for the next fiscal year.