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Report on possible changes in judicial selection process pushed back to 2025 session

Annapolis lawmakers talk juvenile crime. Is upping school attendance part of the solution?

While Md. lawmakers talk about juvenile crime, one expert says low rates of school attendance can be connected. What's being done to address it?

Md. lawmakers hold hearing on 'alarming' school absenteeism

For Maryland students in kindergarten through high school, the rate of chronic absenteeism is nearly 31%, educators and judges told Maryland lawmakers Thursday.

At what cost? For Baltimore's poorest families, the child support system exacts a heavy price — and it's hurting whole communities

Maryland’s child support system, which is supposed to sustain children, is actually hurting some of the state’s neediest families especially in Baltimore, an investigation by The Baltimore Sun has found. A dysfunctional system has decided that parents in struggling city neighborhoods owe tens of millions of dollars in back child support a whopping $23 million in one West Baltimore ZIP code alone.

Child support reform bills gain momentum in Maryland legislature: 'This is the year for action' – Baltimore Sun

New momentum in the General Assembly is bolstering efforts to address some longstanding problems in Maryland’s child support system.