Despite gains, city schools still on defensive
At a time when Baltimore school officials should be looking forward to the start of school this fall and building on recent academic gains, they find themselves fending off criticism...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
For city schools, a rocky road to recovery
Baltimore schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland insists the beleaguered system is headed in the right direction, but that might be a hard sell considering a recent spate of bad news...
Education cutbacks defended
Lawyers representing city students tried to build a case in federal court yesterday that the school system is delivering inadequate education as it tries to recover from a financial crisis....
Schools official grilled in court
The city school system was in court yesterday, trying to make the case that it was on the road to a financial recovery and providing a satisfactory education for Baltimore's...
City schools leadership faulted in report
Baltimore school spending spiraled dangerously out of control as a system that lacked strong leadership and oversight tried to respond to pressure for improved academic performance, a state panel reported...
Schools’ historic ties to an unequal past
The small wooden building that once housed Queenstown Elementary School contains a paradox. Built in the era of racial segregation, it was a place where black children received a second-rate...
Reservists’ heroism saved lives
Eric Jahnsen and his fiancee boarded the Lady D Seaport Taxi late Saturday afternoon with mild skies overhead and Fells Point a short ride away. Five minutes later, they and...
Searching for answers in harbor disaster
As rescue workers continued to search yesterday for three missing passengers of the Seaport Taxi overturned by a vicious storm Saturday, federal investigators questioned the captain, first mate and other...
Anxiety, lost moments mount for families of troops in Iraq
FOUNTAIN, Colo. - These days, Army Sgt. Robert Lynn O'Neil's pride and joy, a dark-red truck with monster tires, sits untouched in front of his family's house. It's parked against...
Grasmick allowed to waive two school days
Even as another snowstorm headed toward Maryland, the state school board gave its superintendent yesterday the authority to shorten the academic year by two days to help local school systems...