The Baltimore Banner

Maryland schools have a new superintendent. She’s a familiar face

Carey Wright spent decades in Maryland as an educator, but she’s most known for her nine years as state superintendent in Mississippi, where students transformed their academic performances in both math and reading before she left in June 2022.

Why Maryland school budgets are in turmoil — and what that means in classrooms

Local school budgets are in turmoil, class sizes are rising or lowering, and superintendents are under pressure to figure it out fast. The general reaction: Wait, this is what the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future means?

Affordable housing faces hurdles. Does ‘teacher housing’ have an easier path?

The three-story homes on Biddle Street, boarded up, blistered and blighted, may not look very different from their neighbors up and down the street. But pretty soon, they’ll take on a new purpose in the neighborhood.

Many Baltimore schools don’t have a nurse. Local colleges are stepping in to find them.

Dozens of Baltimore public schools lack a permanent registered on-site nurse daily, despite a 2021 state mandate for all 149 city school health suites. Some have aides with less education, overseen by a registered nurse somewhere else.

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