Education

May 7 2013 - 8:53am

May 07, 2013Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso announced yesterday he would leave his position at the end of June. He arrived in Baltimore six years ago from New York City, a reform-minded administrator taking over a troubled school system.Debbie Demery, President of the PTA Council of ...

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May 7 2013 - 5:04am

Baltimore Schools CEO Andrés Alonso surprised many yesterday with the announcement that he's retiring on June 30th. Alonso has lead the city school system for six years, and leaves midway through his second contract to take care of ailing parents and to teach at Harvard. WYPR’s Mary Rose Madden was at North Avenue for the outgoing address.

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Apr 30 2013 - 3:54pm

May 1, 2013Fred Lazarus, who has been the President of MICA since 1978, has announced his intention to retire next year.  No other college president in Maryland has served as long as he has.  Artscape, the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and the Baltimore Design School are a few of th...

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Apr 30 2013 - 4:45am

The first public hearing on Baltimore city schools’ $1.3 billion budget takes place tonight before the school board of commissioners. With fewer federal dollars available for the 2013-2014 school year, the proposed budget calls for some cuts and shifting of resources. WYPR's Gwendolyn Glenn reports.

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Apr 25 2013 - 3:46pm

April 30, 2013How do you understand a neighborhood? You can take a stroll around and see what the homes look like or you can ask people that live there what they think. But, now it’s easier than ever to look at the numbers; the numbers that tell you how walkable it is, how much homes are selling f...

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Apr 16 2013 - 9:19am

 Baltimore is home to one of the oldest, most storied high school rivalries in the nation: City College versus Polytechnic Institute, City versus Poly! And Baltimore has one of the richest traditions of high school debate in the nation. Midday brings the rivalry to radio with a live on-air deba...

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Apr 11 2013 - 4:44am

By day he teaches science at The Park School on Old Court Road. But on some nights, Rich Espey puts on his theater hat as an actor and playwright on stages in Baltimore and surrounding areas. Last week, the play, which won the Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s best play award last year, opened at Venus Theater in Laurel. It runs through April 28.

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Apr 5 2013 - 12:25pm

On The Lines Between Us, we look into the value of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  We talk to Morgan State professor  Ray Winbush, Delegate Aisha Braveboy and formber HBCU student Antonio Johnson.  Then, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, Jed Dietz of the Maryland Fil...

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Apr 5 2013 - 9:04am

April 5, 2013About 40 percent of African-American students in Maryland’s public four-year colleges attend one of the state’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs – Morgan State University, Coppin State, Bowie State and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore.HBCUs say t...

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Mar 28 2013 - 3:07pm

Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance has laid out ambitious goals for his system; a graduating class of all bilingual students within 10 years and vastly increased use of digital learning tools. Education leaders say the goals are exciting, but they worry about the costs. WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn reports.

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