New data on the condition of Maryland school buildings shows a startling gap between Baltimore City and the rest of the state, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Public health, education and medical experts at Hopkins released the findings Tuesday of their study comparing the condition of Baltimore City Public School facilities with those in other counties using data provided in spring 2022 by the Interagency Commission on School Construction. The city school system had about 77,000 students enrolled last year. The commission, an independent board whose nine members are appointed by the governor, lawmakers and other state officials, collected data on the condition of K-12 school facilities across the state during the 2020-21 school year, a time when the COVID-19 pandemic moved instruction online for many students.

The $5.5 billion Port Covington project is poised to get a marketing makeover. The 235-acre redevelopment’s new partial owners said Thursday the project will be renamed and rebranded come January just as the first major office and multifamily buildings open up. “One year from now, we won’t be calling it Port Covington,” said MaryAnne Gilmartin, CEO of MAG Partners, the New York developer that bought into the project in May. “You will be excited when we reveal the new name. It’s a refresh.” The move is the latest by the new group of master developers who were brought in to advance the Port Covington project in May by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank.