Kristen Griffith

Dazhon Darien, the man accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate the principal of Pikesville High School, on Monday accepted a plea deal.

The school’s principal and resource officer heard a commotion in the first-floor men’s bathroom, but did not hear the shot.

Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.

The University System of Maryland will take deeper look at how its campuses can prevent the kind of abuse a federal investigation found at UMBC.

The investigation found that the University of Maryland Baltimore County knew about allegations of sex discrimination by a former head coach and failed to properly respond.

More than half of Maryland schools have recovered from pandemic learning loss in English, according to test scores released Tuesday that reveal how individual schools fared on the 2023 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program.

The report card released Thursday measures the 2021-2022 school year and how students performed on Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program tests, access to a well-rounded curriculum, graduation rates, English learner proficiency, attendance, student readiness for high school and survey results that asks about school quality and student success.

In the budget document, staff wrote that eliminating 162.3 full-time equivalent teaching positions would save the system $24.8 million.

The three-day manhunt that stretched from the suburbs of Cockeysville to the fields of Harford County, that left a second police officer shot, closed schools in two counties and caused nervous families to stay home and lock their doors, ended before sunrise Friday.

Out of 196 schools in the Baltimore region, fewer than 5% of students passed the math test in at least one grade, according to the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program.