Baltimore City Schools

The chair and vice chair were two of only three board members to vote against extending the current CEO’s contract in October.

CEO Sonja Santelises and Mayor Brandon Scott gave into student pleas and protests to pardon Ted the turkey.

The settlement doesn’t involve the exchange of money and required Jovani Patterson, the lone remaining plaintiff, to acknowledge the school system hadn’t broken any laws or violated any rules.

Project POSE and Project SEQUEL will offer free tuition and benefits for current school staff and community college students in two local districts to fast track their teaching degrees.

Blighted row houses in East Baltimore have been rehabilitated into affordable units where 15 international teachers are now living onsite.

The new school year ushers in more pre-K expansion and student outcome pushes. But progress is a mixed bag.

One Baltimore City high school combined back-to-school sign-ups with voter registration ahead of the first day of class and many students’ first election.

Union leaders say the board of commissioners needs to “right past wrongs” of closed-off searches by seeking community feedback.

Two come with extensive teaching and education experience. One brings years of nonprofit and government work to the table.

District leaders launched an investigation into the quality of Idaho State University courses in April. Last week, they told over 700 teachers using the courses that they would no longer count.