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Maryland receives No Child Left Behind waiver
Maryland was one of eight states granted a waiver Tuesday from some of the strictest requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which will allow the state to set more reasonable goals for student achievement levels and adopt reforms to close...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Montgomery County (Maryland), Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning
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Oakenshawe parents slow to embrace planned school in Waverly
Oakenshawe students are zoned for nearby Waverly Elementary/Middle School, where a $25 million replacement school is slated to open by the end of 2013. But children from Oakenshawe are nowhere to be found at the current campus, located in two buildings a...
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City schools pass 2013 budget
The Baltimore City school board voted Tuesday to pass the district's proposed $1.31 billion budget, which includes a decrease in the per-pupil funding for charter schools.
As the amount spent on students in traditional schools increases, the system's...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Collective Contract
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City, school system partner to offer more summer options
Baltimore city students will have a plethora of options for education and recreation this summer, under a new partnership between city agencies and school system that will expand the scope and length of programming for city youth. Mayor Stephanie...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Business, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Students
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Alonso: School system cannot inherit rec centers, fund struggling youth programs
Baltimore city CEO Andres Alonso told city council leaders Tuesday that the school system is not in the financial position to inherit recreation centers that are slated for closure in the city budget, after being peppered by council members about the...Tags: Bernard C. Young, Mary Pat Clarke, Conservation, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting
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Alonso, area superintendents plead for restoration of education funding
Three Maryland superintendents whose school systems stand to take the biggest hit from Maryland's 'Doomsday' budget pleaded with state legislators Monday to reverse an estimated $129 million cut to public education that they said would have devastating...Tags: Prince George's County, Maryland General Assembly, Montgomery County (Maryland), Teaching and Learning, Students
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City school employees could see furloughs if doomsday budget stands
Baltimore school employees would be forced to take furlough days if the district has to absorb millions of dollars in education cuts outlined in the state's "doomsday" budget, city schools CEO Andrés Alonso said Tuesday as he prepared to present the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Unemployment, Students
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Critics seek more oversight of renovations at school district headquarters
Outraged education, community and political leaders have called for increased oversight of spending in the Baltimore City school system, amid revelations that about $500,000 was spent to upgrade offices at the district headquarters while city and state...Tags: Parent Organizations, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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KIPP Ujima math educator named Baltimore City's Teacher of the Year
A mathematics educator whose students have consistently scored among the highest in Baltimore and Maryland on state assessments was named the city's 2012 Teacher of the Year.
Bradley Nornhold, a seventh- and eighth-grade math teacher at the high-...Tags: Schools, Teaching and Learning, Students, Charter Schools, Teachers
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Baltimore City schools hit 100 percent in recycling initiative
All Baltimore schools are now recycling, officials announced Thursday, an initiative that generated 27 tons of recycled material in its first month. Until the systemwide effort began in February, 72 schools out of Baltimore's 205 had separated paper,...Tags: Highlandtown, Teaching and Learning, Students, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Energy Saving
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What now? Legislative leaders decry budget cuts, say special session is needed
Democratic lawmakers limped out of Annapolis Tuesday having enacted a "doomsday" budget that slashes spending for education and other services they do not want to cut — and with no clear plan on how to fix a political mess of their own making....Tags: Michael E. Busch, Executive Branch, Democratic Party, Budgets and Budgeting, Annapolis
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City schools crackdown on teacher leave causing friction in district
Since our story last week on the $65 million in unused sick/vacation/personal leave the Baltimore City school system has paid out in the past five years, I've been receiving feedback from several city teachers who said that there is a new order in town...Tags: Unions, Breach of Contract, Teaching and Learning, Collective Contract, Teachers
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