Baltimore City Public Schools

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.

Conversation originally aired August 3, 2009.