Hundreds of thousands of Maryland students returned to school Monday morning, but perhaps no one sported a bigger smile than Andres Alonso.

The head of the Baltimore City school system had a little more facial hair than his fellow academics on the bus to Johnston Square Elementary School, but their excitement seemed equally grand as he yelled to parents on the sidewalk and waved to crossing guards in the street.

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