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More Maryland students pass High School Assessments
Maryland students earned diplomas last year at the highest rate in recent history, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Education, which also unveiled a new system of tracking graduates and dropouts. Under the new "cohort"...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Students, Baltimore County
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Alonso defends school system in light of audit findings
Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso defended the system's financial management Thursday as a complex work in progress, in response to a state audit released Thursday outlining 26 recommendations that address inadequate oversight. In a mass email...Tags: Punishment, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Interior Policy, Coppin State University
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Mayor calls on Alonso, school board to fix broken financial management
On the eve of the release of a comprehensive Baltimore school system audit, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that the lapses in financial management outlined in a draft report were "unacceptable" and called on school officials to take...
Tags: Local Government, Teaching and Learning, Corporate Officers, Business, Annapolis
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Schools audit alarms state, city lawmakers
State and city lawmakers sharply criticized the Baltimore school system Monday after a searing audit called attention to a lack of oversight on school spending. Elected officials said they were deeply concerned by the preliminary audit report, which...
Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Teaching and Learning, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Annapolis
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City to pilot new evaluations for all teachers
All 6,000 Baltimore educators will take part this year in testing a new teacher evaluation system that ties their effectiveness more closely to student performance, school officials announced this week. This system, tested in the city last year for 309...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Academic Progress, U.S. Department of Education
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Baltimore schools chief notes areas for improvement
Baltimore's school system has been in transition over the past five years, and the next five will see more "stops, starts and uncertainties," with a newfound focus on the classroom, schools CEO Andrés Alonso told principals Tuesday. Against the...
Tags: Morgan State University
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Dozens of vacancies mark start of critical year in Baltimore
Baltimore schools opened the year with 87 teacher vacancies, a trend that is not uncommon in the region but comes during a critical year for the system as it embarks on a new student curriculum and teacher evaluation system. City officials said they...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Baltimore County, Howard County
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City schools special education legal fight ends
The nearly three-decade legal fight that transformed the long-beleaguered special-education system in Baltimore city schools has officially come to an end. Vaughn G. et al. v. the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a federal suit filed by the...Tags: Laws, Justice System
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Weinberg, city schools celebrate three new libraries
This time last year, Thomas Johnson Elementary/Middle School librarian Sharon Smith used the only technology she had — a laptop and a projector — to bring color and excitement to her students by shining animated books from the Internet onto...Tags: Charter Schools, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Finance
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NAACP wants to investigate number of women, African-Americans replaced in city schools
The local chapter of Baltimore's NAACP has taken an interest in the recent tensions brewing between Baltimore city principals and city schools CEO Andres Alonso's administration, denouncing the recent moves concerning two principals whose school was...Tags: Minority Groups, NAACP
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Principals union plans to protest at North Ave. on Tuesday
Retired principals from Baltimore City schools are scheduled to picket outside of city school headquarters Tuesday, in protest of the city school board's recent decision to dismiss one principal and not reinstate another until 2013. The principals and...Tags: Unions
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Playing loose with city credit cards
Regarding your story on questionable credit card expenses by Baltimore City school administrators, the various explanations offered by school officials are unconvincing despite their incredible rhetoric ("City school officials play loose with credit,"...Tags: Credit and Debt, Victoria's Secret
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