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Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans
When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall.
There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Martin O'Malley, Emmett Till, Government, University of Maryland, College Park
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Baltimore County school board OKs Dance as superintendent
The Baltimore County school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve S. Dallas Dance, a Houston school administrator, as the next superintendent of its 105,000-student system.
During a brief news conference after the vote, Dance said he had had...Tags: Bowie, Baltimore County, Teaching and Learning, Students, Joe A. Hairston
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One former city teacher's fight to be laid off properly
Last year, we wrote about Kim Parr, who was laid off from her teaching position at the Baltimore School for the Arts amid budget cuts. Students marched down to City Hall to save the visual arts teacher of 27 years, and the layoffs--she was one of three--...Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, Unemployment
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City schools says goodbye to Michael Carter, longtime advocate and director of community engagement
Funeral services were held Wednesday for Michael Carter, a longtime Baltimore city schools advocate whose outspokeness landed him the position in the administration of CEO Andres Alonso as the director of the district's parent and community engagement...Tags: Obituaries, Cancer
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City schools will have to shed more than 100 international teachers
More than 100 international teachers in the Baltimore city school system will most likely lose their jobs and work visas, after a recent labor market test conducted by the district showed that there were hundreds of foreign instructors teaching in...Tags: Employment, Teaching and Learning, Science, Teachers, Collective Contract
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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: Teaching and Learning, Charter Schools, Students, Schools, Teachers
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City residents plead their case for school targeted for closure
Armed with picket signs and passion for their schools, Baltimore residents packed the district's headquarters Tuesday night, pleading with school board members to preserve the programs that CEO Andrés Alonso has recommended be closed or dismantled....Tags: Federal Hill, Teaching and Learning, Students, Cherry Hill (Baltimore, Maryland), Cherry Hill
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Cherry Hill residents make final plea for Southside Academy
Sixteen-year-old NaTeera Smith would rather ride buses for three hours a day between her home in Belair-Edison and Southside Academy in Cherry Hill than start over at a new school. She lived near Southside when she entered ninth grade but has since...Tags: Federal Hill, Students, Teaching and Learning, Belair-Edison, Cherry Hill
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Blog: Alonso's 2012 videotaped message to district about testing integrity
Baltimore city schools CEO Andres Alonso has released his 2012 message to the district on testing integrity, as the school system gears up to begin administering the Maryland School Assessements to students in grades three through eight on March 12. A...Tags: School Examinations, Students, Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress
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City proposes one school closure, scaling back grade levels at three others
Baltimore school officials will begin meeting with four school communities Wednesday, after the district made recommendations that will displace dozens of staff and hundreds of students at one failing high school in Cherry Hill and three elementary/middle...Tags: Federal Hill, Teaching and Learning, Students, Cherry Hill (Baltimore, Maryland), Schools
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City clergymen ask leaders for bottle tax and commitment for school facilities
A group of clergymen called on the city's political leaders Thursday to commit to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's bottle tax proposal and schools CEO Andrés Alonso's large-scale facilities plan that would fund a huge overhaul of the city's dilapidated...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Alonso, school board debate politics of school construction plans
The Baltimore city school board voted Tuesday to pass a resolution that supports the plan proposed by schools CEO Andres Alonso to execute a rapid and massive overhaul of the city's debilitating school facilities by borrowing $1.2 billion--six times...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Annapolis, Small Businesses, Business, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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