Liz Bowie

When school opens in September, Baltimore students will find at least two more students in every class than they had this year. If they are behind academically, they won't have...

The Baltimore school board approved last night the broad outlines of a spending plan for next school year that would increase class sizes, eliminate 250 teaching positions and reduce a...

To keep spending under tight control and pay back a portion of the system's $58 million accumulated deficit, Baltimore school officials said yesterday that they plan to cut 250 teaching...

Glen Mendels, Baltimore: According to The Sun, under the [former] administration of Superintendent Robert Booker, the city schools system overspent its budget by $33 million, and ended the year with...

After hearing Baltimore students protest the lack of adequate state funding for their schools on Calvert Street yesterday morning, Baltimore Circuit Judge Joseph H.H. Kaplan invited two student representatives into...

Before Baltimore's schools were on the verge of insolvency and Mayor Martin O'Malley and Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. were vying for the role of savior, no one saw the...

After months of political debate, threats and promises, Baltimore's public schools finally got the money. The $43 million promised to the school system arrived in its checking account Monday afternoon....

A year ago, Baltimore's school board had become so unhappy with Carmen V. Russo's leadership - particularly her inability to monitor what would become a financial catastrophe - that it...