Teacher union seeks retirement incentives
As the city school system grapples with an unprecedented financial crisis, the Baltimore Teachers Union says it wants more money for its members and is recommending that city school officials...
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City schools unsure how to pay for exams
Most of the money Chenelle Rollins earned at her summer job was spent on a carefully thought-out plan to get into the best college possible and keep the City College...
City aid to schools will fail, Neall says
As officials at City Hall detailed their plan to save Baltimore's financially strapped schools yesterday, the system's former financial adviser, Robert R. Neall, was predicting in Annapolis that the deal...
Schools accept funding offer
Baltimore school board members voted last night to accept "in principle" an agreement with Mayor Martin O'Malley that would provide enough funding to help the school system pay its bills...
Prosecutors seize documents in investigation of city schools
The state prosecutor's office, which has been looking into the Baltimore school system's financial crisis for evidence of wrongdoing, has removed documents from a school system warehouse, an investigator says....
Despite bailout, schools facing difficult times
Now that Mayor Martin O'Malley has taken up the burden of the city school system, he and school leaders have to figure out how to carry the rescue off. And...
City took on plan, aware of bond risk
Even as New York bond raters warned of serious consequences, Mayor Martin O'Malley forged ahead yesterday with a $42 million plan to save Baltimore schools without state help, saying the...
City school official defends spending in the classroom
The Baltimore school system's second-highest ranking official sent a letter yesterday to state and local lawmakers, saying that the school system's deficit cannot be blamed on academic programs added in...
Neall resigns; school rescue in jeopardy
A deal to bail out the struggling Baltimore school system appeared to be falling apart yesterday - at the same time that the system's chief financial adviser resigned in frustration...
Schools to yield control for funds
One part of the emergency plan to keep Baltimore's school system out of bankruptcy moved ahead yesterday even as school officials scurried to satisfy the state's demand for financial accountability....