The Governor Who Takes Credit for Everything — Except What Went Wrong
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore is running for reelection on a record he has spent three years carefully...
Tag: Maryland schools
Moore Calls It a Comeback. Baltimore City’s Numbers Call It Something Else.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore's communications team knows what it's doing. On Thursday, the governor's...
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...
SPLC Under Federal Indictment — And Its Curriculum Is in Maryland Classrooms
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On April 21, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment...
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...
From Model Counties to Warning Signs?
By MDBayNews Staff For decades, Montgomery County, Howard County, and Baltimore County were marketed as Maryland’s crown...
Red States Quietly Improve Schools — and Why Maryland Should Pay Attention
By MDBayNews Staff A growing body of education data is forcing an uncomfortable conversation in blue states: some of the...
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...
School Choice Was Once a Civil Rights Issue—And Many Black Parents Haven’t Forgotten
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In today’s political debates, school choice is often framed as a partisan...
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...
Wootton High School Closure Put on Hold After Community Uproar at MCPS Board
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ROCKVILLE, Md. — Parents, students, and community members packed a Montgomery County...
Are Maryland Schools Following Their Own Safety Protocols? An Investigative Review of Systemic Compliance Failures
Education Watch – MDBayNewsInvestigative Report Maryland law requires schools to follow strict safety protocols designed...
The Silence of the System: How Frederick County Public Schools Failed Its Most Vulnerable Students
When a 22-year-old special education aide stands accused of sexually abusing disabled and non-verbal children inside a...
The Union Station Assault: When Free Speech Meets Leftist Intolerance
On the evening of October 1, 2025, conservative journalist and activist Cam Higby—best known for his bold street debates...
Montgomery County Schools Face Backlash Over Surge in Non-English-Speaking Immigrant Students
When parents in Montgomery County send their children to school, they expect classrooms focused on academics, discipline,...
Maryland Dumbs Down Math: Why Dropping Times Tables Dooms Students
🚨 Maryland has just adopted new math standards that remove the requirement for students to know their multiplication...
Are Maryland Schools Failing Children?
A teacher who imposes his or her ideology onto children is failing the most basic requirements of the job. Parents entrust...
Maryland’s School Safety Theater: Layers of Bureaucracy, Little Real Protection
Maryland politicians love to tell parents that our children are safe in their classrooms. They’ll point to pages of...
Finally, A Course Correction: Why Shrinking the U.S. Department of Education Is Long Overdue
By Michael Phillips The Left is in meltdown mode after the Supreme Court’s July 2025 decision to uphold major cuts to the...
The Flag, the Suspension, and the Fight for Patriotism in Maryland Schools
In a story that has sparked outrage far beyond the halls of Towson High School, 17-year-old Parker Jensen—a senior, a...