Approximately 85 of Maryland's religious organizations, schools and neighborhood groups are banding together to fight for state legislation known as the Dream Act, which would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

The District is changing the rules governing its teacher evaluations, encouraging public schools to reduce the emphasis on standardized test scores when rating their teachers.

Montgomery County teachers and other school employees are set to receive pay raises of 3.4 percent next school year, including some of the paychecks they missed when salaries were frozen in the past few years.

The admissions director for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is investigating how the admissions process at the elite Alexandria magnet school allowed so many struggling students into its freshman class,