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Five Baltimore City schools move off ‘persistently dangerous’ continuum
- A “persistently dangerous” label will no longer be threatened on five Baltimore schools that last year doled out fewer suspensions for violence.
Baltimore County review shows no need for new school
- The High School Utilization Report conducted in 2003 by DeJong Inc. for the Baltimore County Board of Education was recently revisited and, according to county spokesman Don Mohler, “all of the data the school board has been reviewing to date does not indicate the need for a new school.”
Learning gains stressed for young students
- A high-ranking official for a national nonprofit organization that represents state boards of education says that when it comes to serving young learners as part of a comprehensive education, America lacks vision.
Academics for at-risk students tout success
- Students at risk of dropping out of Chicago’s schools are the jury, dishing out punishment to peers who act out.
Baltimore City schools central office becomes alternative school
- Troubled Baltimore City students will attend school in the building where schools chief Andres Alonso and his staff work, under a proposal the school board approved Tuesday night.
Baltimore City looks toward first new schools in years
- Some Baltimore City schools are so dilapidated it is more cost-effective to build new ones -- the first since 1998 -- instead of renovating existing ones, officials say.
Alonso looks to stability after shift of central office employees
- Nearly all of the 300 central office employees whom Baltimore City schools chief Andres Alonso planned to move into schools have been placed, he said this week.
Mayor wants to take over Baltimore City schools
- Mayor Sheila Dixon said she wants to join a growing national trend and take control of the nearly 200 schools in the Baltimore school system.
Dixon seeks longer school day
- Mayor Sheila Dixon wants the school day expanded by two hours — but she isn’t sure how to pay for it.
BCPS seeks bids for online instruction
- Parents who highly favored the pilot version of Baltimore County Public Schools’ online curriculum for virtual students from kindergarten to 12th grade will have to wait and see what happens with the project.
Chef-restaurateur aims to improve city grades with better school meals
- Frozen food shipped in on trucks and heated in a microwave may soon be a thing of the past for Baltimore City schools. Fresh, “home-cooked” meals are hot this year.
Paying students for better grades is partially effective, study says
- It pays to get good grades.
First free, public charter Montessori school to open in East Baltimore for 170 students
- Next to boarded row houses, in an abandoned school in East Baltimore, parents paint walls and construction workers tear down blackboards.
- Next to boarded row houses, in an abandoned school in East Baltimore, parents paint walls and construction workers tear down blackboards.