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• Politics

Former Pugh chief of staff, interim schools CEO to lead new Baltimore Office of Children & Family Success

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young has tapped Tisha Edwards to lead his Office of Children & Family Success.

By Talia Richman

May 16, 2019

• Maryland

The mysterious disappearance of 'Healthy Herbie': Where did 20,000 copies of Baltimore Mayor Pugh's books go?

About 20,000 books were delivered to the Baltimore City schools loading dock at North Avenue in March 2013. Then they disappeared.

• Baltimore City Public Schools

Former Baltimore city schools CEO Andres Alonso a candidate for L.A. superintendent job

Former Baltimore City schools CEO Andres Alonso is in the running to become the next superintendent of Los Angeles schools — the nation’s second-largest school system.

• Baltimore City Public Schools

Baltimore schools have returned millions in state funds for heating repairs

Baltimore schools have had to return millions in state funding for building repairs after projects to fix failing heating systems and roofs grew too expensive or took too long.

By Luke Broadwater

Jan 4, 2018

• Maryland

Baltimore school enrollment falls to a 10-year low

Baltimore City Schools has launched a task force aimed at stemming the loss of students.

By Talia Richman

Dec 21, 2017

• Latest

Teacher contract increases pay and burdens budget

An innovative union contract designed to tie pay to performance has given Baltimore City's teachers some of the best salaries in the state, but it is also expensive for the system.

• Maryland

Pugh chief of staff Tisha Edwards to leave administration to lead BridgeEDU

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's chief of staff is leaving the job less than five months after she started. Former acting Baltimore schools CEO Tisha Edwards will depart the administration to become president of BridgeEDU, the mayor's office said Friday.

• Politics

Jason Botel, KIPP school founder and education advocate, said to become White House adviser

Jason Botel, a Baltimore education advocate and former charter school leader, is being named a senior White House education advisor, according to Politico.

• Education

Baltimore suspending many more students from school

Baltimore city schools suspended nearly 8,500 students last year — a 25 percent increase — despite several years of effort to reduce the rate of disciplinary removals.

• Opinion

Kicked out of preschool?

Suspending or expelling very young children for disciplinary reasons is usually counterproductive and often discriminatory

• Opinion

Mayoral control won't improve city schools

Mayoral control won't improve city schools

• Education

Baltimore city school board approves contract for new CEO, other leadership appointments

Santelises also names first member of her administration

• Opinion

New schools CEO selection brings hope to Baltimore

Often the difference between a good schools CEO and a mediocre comes down to fit with the district. Therein lies the basis for the enthusiastic hope engendered by the appointment of Sonja Santelises as the new CEO of the Baltimore city schools. Unlike the departing Gregory Thornton, her strong suit is academic leadership.

• Baltimore City Paper

3rd District: Royal Farms, Northwood Shopping Center subjects of debate among candidates

The 3rd District, which Robert Curran has held tight since 1995 (when he took over for his brother, Mike, who retired from the City Council after 18 years), is another open seat with plenty of viable candidates. There are nine contenders—eight Democrats and one Green. Of the eight Democrats, four have raised significant money and/or have some name recognition or a political track record. Two have a lot of money and backing.

• Maryland

Candidates for mayor seek more control over Baltimore schools

Baltimore school leadership, already under scrutiny, also faces a challenge from the top candidates for mayor — all of whom say they would seek a stronger role in managing the city's schools.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Community School, a one-room schoolhouse in Remington thrives

• Opinion

Give Thornton some credit

City schools chief has suffered unusually harsh criticism for issues that he inherited

• Baltimore City Paper

DeRay Mckesson begins run for mayor, with experience on state Sen. Ferguson's campaign to draw on

• Obituaries

Joan Hammonds, longtime Baltimore City educator, dies

Joan Hammonds, a longtime Baltimore City teacher who served as executive assistant to the school district's interim CEO, died last week of unknown causes at Good Samaritan Hospital, her son said. She was 65.

By Colin Campbell

Jan 31, 2016

• Educators

City schools see midyear budget, staffing cuts

A number of Baltimore City schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following mid-year budget cuts. Nearly 130 staff were left looking for job placements after the school district imposed budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to be lower than estimated before the school year began.

• Education

One day after disappointing PARCC scores, Maryland and Baltimore schools see drop in NAEP assessment

Maryland's performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress assessment — also known as the "Nation's Report Card" — put Maryland student achievement in the middle of the pack of states nationwide.

• Nancy Grasmick

Lowery's legacy

Outgoing State School Supt. Lillian Lowery leaves Maryland's K-12 schools on track for continued success in an era of rapid change

• Gregory Thornton

Baltimore schools staffed with leaders, but many still need teachers

All Baltimore city schools will open with a leader this year, but there are 90 teaching vacancies that remain.

• Gregory Thornton

Thornton taps Fox 45 reporter to lead district communications

Baltimore city schools CEO Gregory Thornton has tapped longtime Fox 45 Reporter Karen Parks to head his communications team.

• Maryland

New assessments show half of Maryland's students ready for kindergarten

Roughly half of Maryland's kindergartners were deemed ready to tackle a more rigorous curriculum that's being rolled out in schools, according to the results of a new state assessment released Tuesday.

• High Schools

Students, teachers say AP summer program cut would mean lost opportunity

For the past three years, while their peers were sleeping in or on vacation, a group of teenagers from across Baltimore City have converged on Digital Harbor High School with a common goal: to face a challenge.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore schools paying millions in additional income

As the Baltimore school system was running up a $72 million deficit last year — a gap that officials say will force job cuts for the first time in decades — it paid out $46 million in bonuses, overtime pay and accrued leave, pushing the earnings of many of its employees into six figures.

• Baltimore City

Thornton rolls back principal autonomy in struggling schools

In the first major policy move he's proposed since taking over as CEO in July, Thornton is requiring the principals of more than 30 of the city's struggling schools to follow mandates in areas where the previous administration allowed them to make their own decisions.

• Baltimore City Paper

Dude, where's my schools? City's plan to modernize school buildings falls short of original estimates

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Living

• Baltimore City Paper

Homeland Security High School by Numbers

• Baltimore City Paper

Marc Steiner on Auditing the Parks Department

• Baltimore City Paper

City principals circulate memo slamming interim schools CEO Tisha Edwards

• Baltimore City Paper

Interim schools CEO Tisha Edwards scores $225,000 contract

• Baltimore City Paper

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• Baltimore City Paper

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• Baltimore City

Vote on controversial Baltimore school budget Tuesday

The Baltimore school board will vote Tuesday on a $1.3 billion budget that has drawn backlash from schools and lawmakers for its cuts to programs and has led the board to consider a possible overhaul of the district's funding formula as some high schools face up to $450,000 in cuts.

• Corporate Officers

City schools CFO leaving

• New Haven

City schools CFO leaving

• Environmental Issues

Thornton appoints new Cabinet members

• Gregory Thornton

Thornton appoints new Cabinet members

• Business

City school system presents scenario that could mean layoffs

• Baltimore City Public Schools

City school system presents scenario that could mean layoffs

• Educators

New member appointed to city school board

A veteran Baltimore city educator has been appointed to serve as a commissioner on the city school board.

• Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

New member appointed to city school board

• Travel

City school board approves Thornton contract

The Baltimore school board approved Tuesday a four-year contract for Gregory Thornton, the Milwaukee administrator introduced last month as the next superintendent of the school system.

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Sun Media Group, BCPS, Inspector General, City Paper, and House of Cards

• Baltimore City Paper

Produce More College-Ready Graduates

• Baltimore City

Roland Park Country School to open public charter school

Roland Park Country School to open public charter school

• Baltimore City

Roland Park Country School to open public charter school