LOCAL EDUCATION

The winners were chosen by a selection committee of individuals who represent teachers, administrators and parents.

Amy Schott, principal of Henderson Elementary in Prince William County, Va., is The Washington Post's 2022 Principal of the Year.

Jordan Markwood, choral director at Rock Ridge High School in Loudoun County, Va., is The Washington Post's 2022 Teacher of the Year.

The Fairfax school board named Michelle Reid as the system's next superintendent. She currently leads the Northshore School District in Washington state.

The five-member panel of unpaid, volunteer residents, will step down effective April 15.

The labor group has clashed with incumbent Muriel E Bowser during the pandemic.

The Youngkin administration denied media Freedom of Information Act requests for submissions to the tip line, saying that they were covered by exemptions for a governor’s “working papers and correspondence.”

Wayne A.I. Frederick has been at Howard University for more than three decades — first as a student, then a faculty member and administrator. He was named interim president in 2013 and assumed the position permanently a year later.

American and George Washington universities will reverse short-lived mask-optional policies following rising coronavirus caseloads on campuses throughout the region.

The new law requires school systems adopt guidelines for handling sexually explicit content — including how parents are notified of the material and can opt their children out of receiving it.

Forty local groups say undocumented students, students who have incarcerated parents, and adult learners should receive extra funding.

Fourth- and fifth-graders from Bannockburn Elementary School in Bethesda created a quilt that documented their reflections during the pandemic. Many of the squares capture the loneliness the students felt as they stayed home.

Rising coronavirus cases are pushing at least two D.C.-area campuses to temporarily reinstate old mask and testing rules.

The long-plagued school board of one of Maryland’s largest districts has lost three of its members. A bill before the Maryland legislature would reshape the panel, ending the county executive's authority to appoint officials there.

Valerie Sheares Ashby, dean of arts and sciences at Duke University, will become the first female president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

The council approved a budget last year that would gradually remove the school resource officer program by 2025. Bowser’s latest budget proposal calls for restoring the program to its original size.

The ruling applies to the current applicants for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology's Class of 2026.

Peter K. Kilpatrick will become Catholic University's president in July, succeeding John Garvey.