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Baltimore schools CEO Santelises orders shake-up of principals
Three years ago, Nikkia Rowe emerged as the embodiment of what it meant to be a Baltimore principal. As riots put the perils facing the city’s youth under a national microscope, Renaissance Academy High School was held up as a safe haven for West Baltimore. But in the last week of this academic...
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Newsrooms fall silent to remember attack on Capital Gazette
For as long as anyone can remember, they rang the bell. Capital Gazette editors rang their newsroom bell to summon staff and plan stories. Their tradition stretched back decades, but would never be the same. “Starting with today,” Editor Rick Hutzell told his staff, the survivors. “Every time we...
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Within integrated schools, de facto segregation persists
They were classmates and best friends, and they both wanted to get into the 11th-grade Advanced Placement English class at Columbia's Hammond High School. Since meeting in summer school just before ninth grade, Mikey Peterson and Eli Sauerwalt had been through a lot together. They'd each battled...
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Bridging the Divide: The struggle to move past segregated schools
Jeff Sanford went to the debate at the high school cafeteria with an open mind. The boundary lines for 11 schools in the Catonsville area had to be redrawn to relieve overcrowding. But there was a chance to achieve something more, something that could help improve the lives of all children: integration....
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Good Shepherd Services to close Baltimore County residential treatment program
Good Shepherd Services will close its troubled residential treatment program for adolescents in Halethorpe after two state agencies decided to withdraw the children they had placed there. The decision to withdraw the children followed moratoriums imposed late last year by the agencies on sending...
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After flood, Ellicott City shop worker becomes business owner
It was just last summer that Kitty Morgan stood on flood-damaged Main Street in Ellicott City with no home, no job and three cats. She had managed to escape the worst of the floodwaters that destroyed Main Street by taking refuge in the fashion and accessory shop Zebop where she worked — and had...
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Baltimore City schools CEO looks to deep staff cuts to close $130 million budget gap
Baltimore city schools CEO Sonja Santelises said Friday that she is prepared to lay off more than 1,000 people — from classroom teachers to custodians — to close a $130 million gap. Meeting with the city's legislative delegation in Annapolis, she said the layoffs — as well as furloughs and cuts...
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Howard schools superintendent, teachers union continue to clash over "'Slave Song" assignment
Union asks for retraction, Foose defends statement