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Prince William Co. school system seeks feedback on potential new bell times 04/21/2022 11:53pm • School officials in Prince William County, Virginia, are planning to solicit student, staff and parent feedback on potential changes to the county's bell schedules in the coming weeks. The school system is planning to deploy its feedback surveys around April 25 with a two-week administration wind Hogan signs new law raising minimum marriage age in Maryland 04/21/2022 11:46pm • Gov. Larry Hogan signed more than 100 pieces of legislation into law Thursday, including raising the legal age to marry in Maryland. The new law raising Maryland's minimum marriage age from 15 to 17, and gives underage brides and grooms extra hoops to jump through before they can tie the knot. Arlington parents call for increased teacher pay, smaller class sizes in next year's budget 04/21/2022 04:18am • A group of parents in Arlington, Virginia, is urging the county's board to allot additional funding to its school system in the next fiscal year's budget. The group Arlington Parents for Education said in a letter to the board this week that more money should be provided so that class sizes can b Baltimore to pay 200 young parents $1,000 a month as part of guaranteed income pilot program 04/20/2022 06:01pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Baltimore is set to give 200 young parents a cash payment of $1,000 per month over two years as part of a guaranteed income pilot program, M Montgomery Co. students' post-spring break COVID test results are in 04/20/2022 04:31pm • Before spring break, parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, were given COVID-19 test kits and were asked to administer them Monday, the day before the return to classes. By the end of the day, Montgomery County Public Schools reported 503 positive COVID-19 tests, school system spokesperson Chris Tips to help kids avoid spring sports injuries 04/19/2022 08:10pm • Warmer weather means spring sports for kids, and that brings the risk of injuries. But a Children���s National Hospital expert has some tips for avoiding them. "Keeping a really strong core, regardless of the sport you play, is probably the No. 1 thing I can tell you for injury prevention, and th Buck Mason joins new retailers in Georgetown 04/19/2022 09:16am • Los Angeles-based apparel chain Buck Mason has opened its first D.C. location in Georgetown, among a respectable number of new retailers to open stores in the Georgetown neighborhood in the last two years, even as the pandemic has cost Georgetown dozens of other retailers that closed. Buck Mason Record numbers of Cubans, Nicaraguans and Colombians reach US border 04/19/2022 09:09am • ▶ Watch Video: U.S. plans to lift COVID-19 border expulsion policy known as Title 42 A 22-year high in apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border in March was partly fueled by record arrivals of migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ukraine, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Recess coming to Fairfax Co. middle schools next year 04/18/2022 06:13pm • Middle school students in Fairfax County, Virginia, will get a short daily recess period beginning next year. The school board voted Thursday night to update its student and staff health and wellness policy to allow for a 15-minute recess period every day. The change received unanimous support, w Tommy Prine, son of late songwriting legend John Prine, unveils first album at City Winery 04/18/2022 07:39am • Hear our full conversation on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame.��� In 2020, the music world lost a songwriting legend with the death of John Prine. Now, his son Tommy Prine performs live at City Winery in D.C. on Tuesday night. "Being able to tap into that creative space is to tap into the Kids from across the country return to White House lawn for Easter Egg Roll 04/17/2022 02:45pm • For the past two years, no eggs were rolled, no bunnies hopped and no kids spent the Monday after Easter on the White House Lawn. But the hiatus from the iconic holiday tradition ends April 18. ���The White House will once again be open and accessible to visitors. And the egg roll is the largest ga Md. LGBTQ community, people of color in the crosshairs of 'banned book' movement 04/17/2022 12:50am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. Students in one Pennsylvania school district are not allowed to read a biography of the first Black President, Barack Obama. In s Students make video to prove their high school needs repairs 04/16/2022 04:25pm • WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) ��� The short documentary video opens with a high school student explaining how human waste flows up from the ground and floods an area where he and his friends eat lunch. In the eight-minute video with background music and captions of key quotes, students at Druid Hil 14-year-old girl shot at high school carnival in Prince William Co. 04/16/2022 03:00pm • A 14-year-old girl has been wounded and hospitalized after a shooting at a carnival on the campus of Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, Friday night. In a news release, Prince William County officials said that around 9:22 p.m. Friday, off-duty officers assigned to carnival security h How Ukrainian children use art to detail trauma of war 04/16/2022 11:23am • When Russia's invasion of Ukraine forced the Bykovetz family to flee Kyiv in February, 6-year-old Sonya took the toys she could carry. What she left behind, she remembers through drawings: On one piece of paper is a colored picture of her cat. The United Nations reports that 90% of the nearly