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City schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland speaks with state school board member Calvin D. Disney. Canceling summer school and pay cuts are among the cost-saving measures being debated.

Hit hard, schools brace for more cuts

March 28, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Special programs for gifted and talented students already have been canceled. Elementary school counselors have been laid off or moved to middle or high schools. And with money for substitute...

Why debt at schools ballooned unnoticed

March 30, 2019 at 5:52 a.m.

The cries from many Baltimore parents were loud and angry seven years ago: Don't let the state take control of our schools. State schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick recalls people...

Senior members of the city school board have "watched almost silently" while the system's finances have spiraled out of control, says Kevin A. Slayton (right), president of the school system's Parent Community Advisory Board.

Schools to get state money, Ehrlich says

March 29, 2019 at 8:19 p.m.

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that his office will advance money to the Baltimore school system to deal with a crushing cash flow problem that could have shut...

Schools deal may hinge on state funding

March 29, 2019 at 8:41 p.m.

Without an advance of state funds to cover the Baltimore public schools' cash flow problem - one so great that it threatens to bankrupt the system - a deal brokered...

Members of the Baltimore Teachers Union cast their ballots on whether to accept a 3.5 percent pay cut. Almost three-quarters of the teachers and aides voted to reject the proposal.

City teachers reject pay cut

March 29, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

Thousands of angry Baltimore schoolteachers and aides voted overwhelmingly to reject a 3.5 percent cut in salaries yesterday - a decision that could trigger even deeper pay cuts across the...

A community grows irate and demands answers

March 29, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.

Enraged by a financial crisis that has enveloped the Baltimore school system in layoff talks for weeks, parents, community leaders and even school officials are demanding criminal investigations, threatening to...

Schools head for layoffs, pay cuts

March 27, 2019 at 9:12 p.m.

In the absence yesterday of specific offers of help from the mayor or the governor, Baltimore school officials said they intend to proceed with sweeping staff layoffs or across-the-board pay...

Brian Biles, a ninth-grade math teacher at New Era Academy in the city, says he will stop payments into a 401(k) retirement plan.

City teachers put lives on hold in hard times

March 29, 2019 at 2:23 p.m.

Brian Biles hoped to stockpile a comfortable reserve in his 401(k) for his eventual retirement. Victoria A. Clausen had just begun renovations on the old fixer-upper she and her husband...

The snow gave bobcats at the zoo a delicious diversion: hunting birds that flitted into their cages to scavenge for food.

Simply beastly weather

August 21, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Never mind that snow leopards are supposed to revel in this weather. This one, recently arrived from San Antonio, ventured outside for a minute into the snow and ran back...

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