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Dozens of vacancies mark start of critical year in Baltimore
Baltimore schools opened the year with 87 teacher vacancies, a trend that is not uncommon in the region but comes during a critical year for the system as it embarks on a new student curriculum and teacher evaluation system. City officials said they...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Students, Baltimore County
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City schools special education legal fight ends
The nearly three-decade legal fight that transformed the long-beleaguered special-education system in Baltimore city schools has officially come to an end. Vaughn G. et al. v. the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a federal suit filed by the...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Weinberg, city schools celebrate three new libraries
This time last year, Thomas Johnson Elementary/Middle School librarian Sharon Smith used the only technology she had — a laptop and a projector — to bring color and excitement to her students by shining animated books from the Internet onto...Tags: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Executive Branch, Finance, Anthony G. Brown, Politics
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NAACP wants to investigate number of women, African-Americans replaced in city schools
The local chapter of Baltimore's NAACP has taken an interest in the recent tensions brewing between Baltimore city principals and city schools CEO Andres Alonso's administration, denouncing the recent moves concerning two principals whose school was...Tags: Minority Groups, NAACP
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Principals union plans to protest at North Ave. on Tuesday
Retired principals from Baltimore City schools are scheduled to picket outside of city school headquarters Tuesday, in protest of the city school board's recent decision to dismiss one principal and not reinstate another until 2013. The principals and...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace
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Playing loose with city credit cards
Regarding your story on questionable credit card expenses by Baltimore City school administrators, the various explanations offered by school officials are unconvincing despite their incredible rhetoric ("City school officials play loose with credit,"...Tags: Victoria's Secret, Credit and Debt
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City leaders call for review of schools credit cards
Baltimore's top leadership called on the school system Monday to tighten oversight of its expenditures after a Baltimore Sun investigation found central office staff spent roughly $500,000 during the past year and a half on items such as a $7,300 office...Tags: Media Industry, Bernard C. Young, Credit and Debt, Travel, Martin O'Malley
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City schools' credit card statements offer a glimpse into the "cost of doing business"
In the last year, as Baltimore city schools' budgetary decisions -- $14 million in overtime, generous leave payouts, a renovated IT Department -- have faced heightened scrutiny, officials have defended much of their spending as "the cost of doing...Tags: Services and Shopping, Bank of America Corp., Credit and Debt, Event Planning, Maryland Public Information Act
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22 city schools to start year without permanent leaders
Twenty-two Baltimore schools will open Monday without permanent principals in place, continuing the unprecedented turnover under Andrés Alonso — moves that the administrators union says reflect "vindictive" and "capricious" decisions by the...Tags: Unions, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Examinations
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City school board reinstates principal who had been fired over alleged cheating
The city school board reinstated a principal Monday night who had been fired by CEO Andrés Alonso over alleged cheating at her school. But the reinstatement of Abbottston Elementary School Principal Angela Faltz won't take effect until 2013, and she...
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City educators question school system's heat dismissal policy
As the heat index crept toward the 90-degree mark Tuesday morning, Baltimore city social studies teacher Ejaz Baluch watched his students at ConneXions School for the Arts begin to fade. By 11 a.m., when the heat index had risen to 93 degrees, the school...
Tags: Weather, Education, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Weather Reports
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City principals union head protests demotions
The president of the Baltimore principals union has vowed to protest recent actions he called "vindictive" and "capricious" after city schools CEO Andres Alonso demoted 15 principals whose schools had low scores on state tests. In a memo obtained by...
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