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Reporters and the general public, including entrepreneurs, will soon have quicker access to the vast amount of data stored at the National Center for Education Statistics.

The Government Accounting Office says cheating on standardized tests used for accountability purposes is likely to have happened in 40 states.

Baltimore City and Prince George's County may have misspent more than half a million dollars in federal grant money on personal items such as dinner cruises and makeover days.

Chicago Public Schools shut down 49 public school programs, most of them on the city's south and west sides. In the end, protests did little to prevent neighborhood schools from being closed.

The debate rages on over how high the stakes should be for standardized tests being developed to assess students' progress with respect to the Common Core.

The application for a virtual charter school that might open in suburban Chicago was denied by 18 separate school districts, and the company will have to appeal each decision individually.

A report in yesterday's Des Moines (Iowa) Register shows how Maryland's school improvement efforts have left other states, including Iowa, in the dust.

The country's second-largest school district has banned suspensions for students who are responsible only for "willful defiance" such as failure to wear a school uniform.

Annette DiMaggio of Queen Anne's County has been named statewide winner of the sixth annual Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Awards program.

A new law in Maryland will make it easier for students to earn a degree in college and to leave high school ready for college or a career, according to legislators who sponsored the legislation.