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Six candidates for Baltimore mayor sounded off on education, drug addiction, vacant homes and job creation at a Tuesday night forum sponsored by a coalition of nearly three dozen advocacy groups.

Take this list as personal suggestions, from one neighbor to another.

Charter school planned in York Road corridor, with help of Loyola University Maryland's dean of education and a former Gilman School headmaster who resigned under pressure, accused of padding his resume.

What happened to Severna Park during this spring's budget process, critics say, is evidence of a school construction and renovation system bogged down by politics.

A reader asks why The Sun solicits readers' opinion of Baltimore school CEO Andres Alonso's performance on the job

Baltimore schools CEO Andres Alonso doesn't deserve his recently-signed contract extension — at least not based on school performance

Baltimore city schools CEO Andres Alonso and the principals of two schools where test scores were altered should be shown the door

While students around the state showed progress on the Maryland School Assessment, Baltimore City not only experienced a setback this year with declines in math and reading, but several dozen of the district's schools were among those that performed the worst in the state.

A new teacher evaluation system that takes into account how well students learn their lessons was approved by a gubernatorial task force Monday and will begin to be tested in seven school districts, including Baltimore city and county, in the fall.