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English sweeps Baltimore City teacher union elections
- Incumbent Marietta English swept the Baltimore Teachers Union election with a resounding victory, earning her a fifth term as president.
Candidates for teachers union president sound off on reforms, school violence
- Student attacks on teachers and city schools chief Andres Alonso’s sweeping reform efforts defined this year in Baltimore City schools.
Franchot visits Baltimore schools before vote on construction funding
- Fact-finding school visits or political posturing?
City schools chief unveils plan to aid in preventing dropouts
- To keep troubled kids from dropping out, city schools chief Andres Alonso unveiled plans Tuesday for four new alternative schools where suspended students can attend morning and night classes to catch up on credits.
Battered Baltimore city teacher out of school; accused attackers allowed to return to take tests
- A metal plate holds together Frank Principato’s face. A student threw a chair at his head and shattered his cheekbone in three places.
- A metal plate holds together Frank Principato’s face. A student threw a chair at his head and shattered his cheekbone in three places.
City teachers union expects low turnout at election
- Baltimore City teachers — and even some candidates — expect a dismal turnout at Wednesday’s election for the president of the Baltimore Teachers Union.
College graduates prepare to face an uncertain job market
- Two graphic design internships and seven interviews later, Liz Rockey still doesn’t have a job and she graduates Friday from Villa Julie College.
Most seats at city’s new middle-high schools filled
- More than half of the seats have been filled at the six new combined middle-high schools opening in Baltimore this fall, showing parents’ desire for new schools and new options for their kids.
Delegate urges probe of repeat suspension
- Principals suspend students repeatedly instead of examining mental illness, poverty, abuse and other struggles that lead kids to misbehave, a state delegate says.
The 3-minute interview: Derek Randel
- Teachers throughout Maryland complain of students and parents attacking them. Unfortunately, the violence against teachers persists worldwide, says Derek Randel, a former middle school math teacher from Illinois who wrote the new book “Attacking Our Educators.”
Stay in school or risk getting killed, study says
- Playing hooky or getting suspended increases children’s chances of being shot, researchers say.
‘Young people are hungry to be heard’
- Inside a classroom at the high school in East Baltimore, the boys relish taunting and terrorizing their teacher.
- Inside a classroom at the high school in East Baltimore, the boys relish taunting and terrorizing their teacher.