tisha edwards
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The city government is requiring nearly 2,000 school employees to begin contributing to the municipal retirement system, a plan met with resistance by school officials who say the district won't be able to meet the July 1 deadline. - Two months after nearly one-third of the city's principals were penalized over poor student attendance, the school system has made marked progress, education officials said at a hearing Thursday called by City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke.
- A fifth-grade math and science teacher whose principal calls her the "cream of the crop" and whose students say makes them forget they're learning equations and elements was named Baltimore City's 2014 Teacher of the Year.
- Interim CEO's choice to judge principals based on student attendance is misguided
- Even though the Baltimore City school system is making progress at keeping students in school, in each of the last three years one quarter of all city school students and nearly one third of its special education students have been chronically absent. That's far too many.
- Don't blame principals if students don't show up
- It's impossible for Baltimore principals to get every student into school
- Interim city schools CEO Tisha Edwards is right to hold principals accountable for low attendance rates
- Baltimore schools interim CEO Tisha Edwards is disciplining nearly one-third of the system's principals over high student absenteeism, drawing the ire of the administrators union for being rash and unfair.
- 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.
- More than a decade before thousands rallied outside of the statehouse in Annapolis for adequate school facilities for the city's children, several dozen residents met in a school lunchroom in Northeast Baltimore to lay the groundwork for how to do so for their community.
- Interim city schools CEO did exemplary work for Baltimore
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- City council president promises to give new schools chief his help
- Before a crowd of students, education leaders and activists, Gregory Thornton proclaimed that he was "coming home" to Maryland, where he will take the helm of one of the state's lowest-performing, but high-profile, school district this year.
- City lawmakers said Monday that they were shocked by a Baltimore Sun investigation into school violence published over the weekend and plan to hold hearings to address the hundreds of injury claims filed by teachers.
- Baltimore school officials are investigating hazing allegations involving the Dunbar High School football program, and parents are protesting the possibility that the school's celebrated coach may be removed.
- Maryland's high school graduate rate rose significantly this year, with particularly large increases for minority and special education populations.
- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her security detail made two dozen out-of-state trips in 2013. The mayor's supporters applaud her travel, saying she is representing the city well before groups across the country. But some question whether it's possible to govern as effectively from out of town.
- Mary L. Booker, who rose through the ranks from teacher to become principal of Calvin M. Rodwell Elementary School, died Jan. 9 of multiple myeloma at her Hamilton home. She was 57.
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