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Baltimore Teachers Union organizing ‘virtual’ rally
- Starting today, the Baltimore Teachers Union will rally against the progress of contract negotiations — not on the street, but in cyberspace.
Jesuit ousted 13 years after sex allegations
- Loyola College removed a Jesuit clergy member from campus last month who had been fired from a Dallas Jesuit high school 13 years ago because of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct and admittedly serving alcohol to minors, the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus and school officials acknowledged this week.
- Loyola College removed a Jesuit clergy member from campus last month who had been fired from a Dallas Jesuit high school 13 years ago because of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct and admittedly serving alcohol to minors, the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus and school officials acknowledged this week.
Pattern of moving accused priests to college campus
- Claude Ory is at least the third Jesuit clergy member with substantial sexual abuse allegations to be transferred from a Jesuit high school to Loyola College.
Secondhand steals: Salvation Army fashion show and luncheon
- The Salvation Army’s annual Women’s Auxiliary Fashion Show and Luncheon will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at The Middle River Boys and Girls Club.
Parents push for elected school board
- Efforts to add a ballot question in November’s election to determine if Baltimore City voters support a change from the current appointment system of school board commissioners to a mixed board of appointed and elected members failed in the General Assembly session.
School failed to tell parents about runaway
- The Garrison Middle School special-needs student missing since March 29, when he ran away from school, was located unharmed 3 a.m. Easter Sunday.
Johns Hopkins financial aid director placed on leave
- Johns Hopkins University announced Monday that it had been informed by the parent company of Student Loan Xpress Inc. about consulting fees and travel expenses paid to the Homewood campus’ director of student financial services. The Hopkins’ official, Ellen Frishberg, had received about $65,000 in consulting fees and $1,200 in travel expenses since 2002, JHU said in a press release.
No cars on Sunday? Maybe
- How does closing off traffic in downtown Baltimore on Sundays sound? No honking horns, screeching brakes or gridlocked congestion.
- How does closing off traffic in downtown Baltimore on Sundays sound? No honking horns, screeching brakes or gridlocked congestion.
Lacking vaccinations, students temporarily return to school
- Some 1,100 Baltimore City Public Schools students who were excluded from attending school for nearly three months because of missing immunizations can return to classes for 45 days while efforts to vaccinate them continue, school officials announced Thursday.
School system faults limited information during hiring for letting Gounaris slip through cracks
- Timothy Gounaris was hired to teach in Baltimore County shortly after his forced resignation from Harford County Public Schools in 2000 because of a sexual relationship with a former Falston Middle School student. He taught at Pine Grove Middle School in Baltimore County until the allegations of a new sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl surfaced there in December 2005. Gounaris was removed from the classroom while under investigation by Baltimore County police and resigned last summer from his teaching position in Baltimore County.
Survey: Better safety No. 1 issue in city schools
- Improving school safety is the most important issue the next schools chief must address, according to more than 2,100 students, parents, teachers, staff, business and community partners who responded to the Baltimore City school board’s CEO search survey.
Judiasm meets Christianity: Notre Dame holds seder
- Shortly before sundown Monday, Sister Mary Roy Weiss, director of campus ministry at Baltimore’s College of Notre Dame, greeted more than 50 students, staff, faculty, friends and family — Christian and Jewish — in the school’s Doyle Formal Lounge and briefly spoke of the connection between seder and Catholic Mass.
- Shortly before sundown Monday, Sister Mary Roy Weiss, director of campus ministry at Baltimore’s College of Notre Dame, greeted more than 50 students, staff, faculty, friends and family — Christian and Jewish — in the school’s Doyle Formal Lounge and briefly spoke of the connection between seder and Catholic Mass.
Ousted monsignor accused again
- Previous allegations of child sexual abuse by Monsignor Richard Smith, former pastor at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ellicott City, were made by an Anne Arundel County man in May, according to the victim’s mother.
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