3+ week, 5+ day ago   (239+ words) August 18, 2026, 4:58 AM Two D.C. area high schools are among the 10 best schools in the nation, according to new U.S. News and World Report rankings. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County ranked sixth nationally, and the District’s School…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (686+ words) June 24, 2026, 4:10 AM Some students in Montgomery County are gearing up to testify at the Board of Education meeting Thursday to address concerns over the superintendent’s response to an open letter concerning censorship of student publications. Earlier this month, over 150 students…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (305+ words) June 24, 2026, 3:57 AM The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick County school districts and Maryland’s education agency in the Trump administration’s latest challenge of the region’s school policies regarding transgender students. The federal education agency said…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (323+ words) May 29, 2026, 7:44 PM Maryland schools made nation-leading strides in their recovery from students’ learning loss in the pandemic, according to new data. They ranked third in the nation in their students’ reading recovery rates, and were fifth in math recovery, according…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (713+ words) May 13, 2026, 4:09 AM Sometimes, when Dawn Iannaco-Hahn tried to pick her kids up early from Blake High School so they can attend a doctor’s appointment, she’d strategically try to plan it around lunch time. As she approached the Montgomery County school’s…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (240+ words) April 19, 2026, 3:36 PM The last day for the 2026-2027 school year for Montgomery County students is set, but it means some calendar adjustments need to be made in order to bank potential makeup days. The school year must end by June 19, 2027, a…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (293+ words) If you or a loved one are planning to go to college in the next year, the DMV has plenty of great options. Nine schools from D.C., Maryland and Virginia made it into the top 100 schools in the United States, according…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (255+ words) OLYMPIA, Wash. — State education leaders said the debate over transitional kindergarten funding was still unfolding after the state approved a 25% funding cut. The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction said the reduction was recently approved by Governor Bob Ferguson....

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) The Washington Post Experts say they are exacerbating the effects of a decade-long decline in birth rates. Prekindergarten applications in D.C. have plunged this year, particularly at schools in immigrant neighborhoods and those with bilingual programs, a sign of how federal…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (497+ words) April 11, 2026, 6:14 PM The football field at Gaithersburg High School was packed Saturday morning for the inaugural Superintendent’s Shuffle. The Montgomery County Public Schools’ 5K, which raced through Bohrer Park before returning to John H. Harvill Stadium, was organized in part with…...