OPINION: The Case for the Orange Ballot in Frederick County’s School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a commentary piece and reflects the view of its author. The Board of Education race...
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Maryland Scored 13% on “Parental Rights.” Here’s What the Score Leaves Out.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Oct. 1, the advocacy group Defending Education released its first Rankings on Integrity...
Three Weeks After Cutting 415 Positions, MCPS Board Gave Its Chiefs a 6.23 Percent Raise
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — The Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously on...
Police Say MCPS Declined to Give Them the Name of a Student Accused of Kicking an Autistic 6-Year-Old
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Montgomery County police say a report has been filed stating that a...
The Union Playbook: Hilton’s California Fix and Maryland’s Test
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Steve Hilton has a blunt diagnosis for why California kids can't read. On X this week, the...
Two Weapons Incidents at Magruder in One Morning Reopen Montgomery County’s SRO Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County police were called to Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood shortly...
Diaz Points to a Tennessee Charter School’s Reading Turnaround. Here’s What the Study Actually Found.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County, Md. — With about two months left before the Nov. 3 general election,...
UMD Let Its Own “Terps” Trademark Lapse for Nearly Three Years. Now It Wants a Cannabis Company to Stop Using the Name.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews COLLEGE PARK — For all of 2023, 2024 and 2025, and into January of this year, the...
Navy Doesn’t Rebuild. It Just Reloads. Believe It Again in 2026.
There's a version of this article that writes itself every year in Annapolis: Navy loses its best players, nobody outside...
Maryland Football Is Selling Hope Again. Don’t Buy It Yet.
Every couple of years, Maryland football finds a new reason to believe. This time it's a sophomore quarterback with a...
A Sewage Closure Becomes a Campaign Ad Within the Hour in Howard County
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Guilford Elementary School in Columbia shut its doors Wednesday morning, the third day of...
Wallops Industry Day Tackles Housing and Workforce. The State’s Funding Fight Got Left Off the Agenda.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Salisbury University's Guerrieri Academic Commons hosted "Innovating Together: Building...
A UMB Instructor’s Visa Lapsed in 2024. Why Didn’t Anyone Catch It Until ICE Did?
DHS says Berhanu Kibret's visa expired in May 2024. UMB says he nevertheless had valid work authorization. The unanswered...
MCPS Cut 43 Social Workers to Close a Budget Gap. It’s Now Hiring a Content Creator for Up to $171,348.
By Michael Phillips| MDBayNews Two months after Montgomery County Public Schools eliminated dozens of social worker...
The $4,000 “Crisis” Is Mostly Sandwiches. The Real Maryland Affordability Story Is in Annapolis.
By Michael Phillips | Maryland Bay News The Maryland Democratic Party wants you to believe Donald Trump personally raised...
Two Maryland Schools Cut Staff. Two Cut Tuition Instead. Only One Strategy Is Working.
Maryland's public university system has been cut $222 million over three years. College Park and Bowie State responded by...
Maryland’s Hidden Bill: A Supreme Court Ruling Just Told Annapolis to Find the Money It Never Set Aside
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's Supreme Court handed the state a win on June 23 — and used the occasion to...
Montgomery County Schools Faces Supreme Court Petition After Barring Teacher for Refusing to Keep Parents in the Dark
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The cert petition landed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Kimberly Ann Polk, a...
MCPS Curriculum Tied to SPLC Standards as Federal Fraud Charges Loom Over Organization
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews At a Montgomery County Board of Education work session last week, Moms for Liberty chapter...
Montgomery County Schools Caught Moving the Goalposts Again
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County Public Schools appears to have found its latest justification for closing...
John Barry: The Irish Sailor Who Helped Forge the American Navy
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For Irish-American Heritage Month, Maryland has every reason to look toward Annapolis —...
Empty Seats, Full Budgets: Baltimore City Schools’ Enrollment Crisis Deepens
By MDBayNews Staff Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) is facing a problem few districts want to talk about plainly: too...
MCPS Tells Local Politicians: Stay in Your Lane on Immigration Guidance
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor has sent a pointed message to local...
The $30 Billion Mirage: How Maryland’s “Blueprint” Became a Case Study in Expensive Failure
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future—often called the Kirwan plan—passed in 2021,...
8% Proficient in Math — But Plenty of Time for Political Walkouts at Gaithersburg Middle
By MDBayNews Staff Images and reporting first highlighted by Libs of TikTok have ignited controversy inside Montgomery...
More Bureaucrats, Fewer Students: What’s Really Happening Inside MCPS?
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) added 1,769 full-time employees between the 2018–19 and...
Walkouts, ICE and Academic Reality: Should Students Face Consequences?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Dozens of students at Arundel High School — along with students in parts of Baltimore...
Montgomery County Floats “Targeted” Property Tax Hike — After Years of Budget Growth
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County leaders are now openly acknowledging what many residents have suspected for months:...
Maryland’s Soft Stance on School Safety Is Failing Our Students
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In just two weeks, Maryland families have been forced to ask a question no parent should...
Brenda M. Diaz Calls for Return of School Resource Officers in MCPS
By MDBayNews Staff As Montgomery County Public Schools continues to grapple with student safety concerns following the...
After Wootton, Montgomery County Must Restore — and Strengthen — Its School Resource Officer Program
By MDBayNews Staff In the wake of the shooting at Thomas S. Wootton High School, Montgomery County leaders are once again...
HB 459: Why the Local School Board Protection Act Still Matters—Even After Testimony Closed
By MDBayNews Staff The public sign-up window to testify on House Bill 459, the Local School Board Protection Act, has...
After Wootton, Annapolis Faces a Hard Question: Should Schools Be Kept in the Dark?
By MDBayNews Staff In the wake of the shooting at Wootton High School, a grim but unavoidable debate has landed squarely in...
Andrew Friedson Pushes Back on MCPS Boundary Study, Warns Against “Rubber-Stamp” School Relocation
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County Councilmember Andrew Friedson is raising serious concerns about the direction of a...
When Warnings Are Ignored: The Wootton Shooting and a System That Failed to Protect Students
By MDBayNews Staff Update (2-11-26): Speculation continues online regarding whether any student involved was wearing a...
Wootton High School Shooting Raises Hard Questions About School Safety—and Calls to Remove Police
By MDBayNews Staff A shooting inside Thomas S. Wootton High School on Tuesday afternoon left one student wounded and sent...
County Council Candidate Reardon Sullivan Blasts MCPS Plan to Close Wootton High School
By MDBayNews Staff The proposed closure of Wootton High School is quickly becoming a defining local issue in Montgomery...
Rockville Leaders Break With MCPS on Option H, Warn of Long-Term Planning and Trust Failures
By MDBayNews Staff Correction:An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Kim Glassman as a Rockville City...
Opinion: MCPS Graduation Rate Drop Isn’t Just a Number — It’s a Red Flag
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) recently announced that its four-year graduation...
Van Grack Warns MCPS: Option H Would Undermine Wootton, Housing Plans, and Fiscal Reality
By MDBayNews Staff Rockville, Md. — As Montgomery County Public Schools weighs major changes affecting Thomas S. Wootton...