Privately run city schools cost more to improve
Three Baltimore elementary schools run by the for-profit Edison company are making progress, but it's costing more to run them than other city schools that have seen bigger jumps in...
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Carroll official to head city schools team
A longtime Carroll County schools administrator will head a team of managers with far-reaching powers to overhaul the city school system's troubled special-education program. State school officials announced yesterday that...
State seeks a role in managing city schools
The Maryland State Department of Education yesterday asked a federal judge to send state managers into several Baltimore school system departments, intensifying a power struggle over who will run the...
Audit faults schools’ records
Record-keeping problems could cost Baltimore's school system at least $12.2 million - and perhaps millions more - as federal auditors examine the spending of Medicaid dollars earmarked for special-education students....
Md. urges takeover of city’s schools
Calling Baltimore's special-education program "a failure of extraordinary magnitude," state education officials called yesterday for an outside takeover of the school district or a major overhaul of its management. The...
Middle schools falling short in assessment test
Blame it on hormones, tougher standards or just the challenge of teaching rambunctious adolescents: The enviable math and reading scores enjoyed by elementary schools across the state have eluded middle...
Deep Throat revelation uncovers a debate on ethics for students
Melinda Kenny scrapped her lesson plans for yesterday's honors philosophy class at Catonsville High School. Instead, she seized this week's teachable moment - the revelation of the identity of Deep...
Prisoner dies after altercation with guards
A 51-year-old Randallstown man jailed at Central Booking and Intake Center in Baltimore on charges of theft and failure to appear in court died yesterday after an altercation with guards...
County says it didn’t find evidence that Dundalk boy’s life was in danger
Baltimore County social workers visited the home of Roy Lechner Jr. more than 150 times in the two years before he died of suspected abuse - but didn't feel they...
As child is laid to rest, questions persist
Thick makeup camouflaged the bruises on his face, and his Ravens cap covered the injuries on his head. Surrounded in his small white casket by teddy bears and cards from...