Andres Alonso

Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso steps down, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown launches his bid for governor today, a report on the Syrian refugee crisis from Catholic Relief Services' Joan Rosenhauer and Maryland  filmmaker Kathy McCabe on her documentary, "Good Ol Freda," on the Midday Weekly Review.

May 7, 2013

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso is retiring at the end of June. We ask WYPR education reporter Gwendolyn Glenn what his six-year tenure means for the city’s kids.

Catoctin Furnace in Western Maryland fashioned iron into bombshells to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. It closed in 1903 with iron ore to spare. Elizabeth Anderson Comer, editor of a new book on the furnace, tells us why.

May 07, 2013

Baltimore 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.

A recent state audit of Baltimore City Public Schools found abundant problems with how the school system handles its finances. City Schools CEO Andres Alonso is here to discuss the audit's findings, as well as how he plans to resolve the issues.

Tom talks to Corey Williams, the filmmaker behind a documentary that chronicles the efforts of people in the Baltimore and D.C. area trying to make a living in the film industry, and to Harford County-based actor Marili Mejias.

A recently released state audit revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in overpayments to employees and millions of dollars in uncollected debt. This comes at a time when City Schools is looking for billions of dollars from the state to renovate dilapidated schools.

Andres Alonso, Baltimore Schools CEO, talks about his ambitious $1.3 billion plan to overhaul city school buildings while shuttering 20 to 30 in the process. Also, his latest efforts to prevent cheating, and how No Child Left Behind continues to impact the city school system.

Of the 50 schools across the state that showed the largest combined drops on math and reading scores in the Maryland School Assessment, 45 were in Baltimore. Most striking: Six city schools dropped 20 points or more in both reading and math since 2010. Coming on the heels of another cheating scandal, the test results raise two questions: were Baltimore's celebrated gains since 2007 under CEO Andres Alonso the result of test tampering or was this year's setback normal for a large, urban school system after years of rising scores? We'll hear directly from Dr.

Baltimore City Schools CEO Andrés Alonso says at least 330 teachers have committed to taking early retirement buyouts.What do the Pratt Street Riots have to do with the Hard Rock Cafe? Everything. Talking a look at courts that offer social programs instead of jail time. Dudley Clendinen speaks about how living with ALS has affected his priorities, both personally and professionally.