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Senior cabinet members in the Baltimore City school system are being offered $10,000 to stay through June to assist with the transition to a new administration — a $70,000 expense that school officials say is the price of maintaining stability. - The next Baltimore city schools CEO should lead with integrity, have compassion for students, and be politically and technologically ready to meets 21st century demands.
- When Baltimore school officials pressed state lawmakers to fund an ambitious $1 billion, 10-year plan this year to modernize school facilities, no one understood having a decade-long vision more than Sen. Catherine Pugh.
- Baltimore school administrators kicked off the coming school year Wednesday in an unconventional ceremony where interim schools CEO Tisha Edwards told school leaders that they would be encouraged to take risks, make mistakes and push the limits of what's possible.
- I don't tune into Baltimore's morning news shows expecting hard-hitting, revealing interviews. Traffic, weather, softer features and a few nuts-and-bolts news stories are the usual order of the day. But WBFF's Patrice Sanders stopped me cold on May 24 with an interview she did with Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso in response to an audit that found tens of thousands of federal stimulus dollars had been misspent on his watch.
- The Baltimore city school board began the process of hiring a firm to conduct a national search for the district's next superintendent, according to a news release.
- The Baltimore school system ranked second among the nation's 100 largest school districts in how much it spent per pupil in fiscal year 2011, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- The Baltimore school board unanimously passed a $1.174 billion budget Monday that had essentially remained intact since it was presented.
- Successful Alonso era of reform at Baltimore schools made possible by Morris
- The city school board is considering proposals for seven charter schools that include two named for female trailblazers, another attempt at an all-male, college-preparatory program in East Baltimore, and an elementary school for at-risk youths.
- Baltimore city schools CEO Andres Alonso, whose bold yet divisive reforms led to a drastic shift in the city's educational landscape, has resigned his post.
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