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City schools pay $14 million overtime in four years
The cash-strapped Baltimore school system has paid more than $14 million in overtime over the past four years, mostly to its understaffed police force and hundreds of temporary employees who have filled gaps created by CEO Andrés Alonso's plan to shrink...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Health and Safety at School, Martin O'Malley, Nancy Grasmick, Teaching and Learning
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Balto. Co. schools budget would add 100 teachers
Baltimore County classrooms would have about 100 more teachers next school year under a budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Superintendent Dallas Dance. In his first spending plan since taking the post, Dance presented a $1.3 billion operating budget...
Tags: Perry Hall High School, Baltimore County, Health and Safety at School, Budgets and Budgeting, Education
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Franchot puts heat on Baltimore County schools
State Comptroller Peter Franchot plans to post an online petition on his agency's web site Thursday to help Baltimore County parents put pressure on the county school administration to take action to put air-conditioning into schools that now offer no...Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Annapolis, Peter Franchot, Politics
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Stoneleigh celebrates start of $18.8 million addition
A year of advocacy was punctuated with celebration Wednesday morning, June 6, as construction of a 200-seat addition to Stoneleigh Elementary School began with a ceremonial groundbreaking. "Less than a year ago, we were saying, 'What are we going to do?'...Tags: Kevin Kamenetz, George Washington Carver, Teaching and Learning, Education, Dels (music group)
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Lack of air-conditioning in Baltimore County schools criticized
State Comptroller Peter Franchot criticized Baltimore County leaders Wednesday for failing to use $7 million in school construction funds to air-condition schools.
Franchot, who welcomed a group of Middleborough Elementary children and their parents to...Tags: Elementary Schools, Kevin Kamenetz, Martin O'Malley, Annapolis, Schools
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Baltimore County legislators, parents to ask Dance to put more teachers in high schools
Baltimore County parents and legislators will ask incoming schools Superintendent Dallas Dance to consider putting more teachers in high schools, where class sizes have swelled since positions were eliminated a year ago.
Maryland Sen. James Brochin, a...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, High Schools, Pikesville
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Suspensions high in Baltimore County
Baltimore County reported the highest suspension rate of any Maryland district apart from the Eastern Shore in the last school year, despite its efforts to focus on discipline that doesn't require students to miss classroom time.
About 10,000 students...Tags: Punishment, Autism, Bowie, Teaching and Learning, Teaching and Learning
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School transition team urges review of achievement gap, discipline policies
Baltimore County schools should work to more quickly eliminate achievement gaps and ensure that discipline policies are applied consistently to all groups of students, according to recommendations made by the transition team appointed by Superintendent...Tags: Baltimore County, Nancy Grasmick, Education, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Meet Dallas Dance
New Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance will be the guest at the next Sun Newsmaker Forum this Thursday, when he will answer questions from the public about his plans for the school system and the decisions he has already made. Mr. Dance's...
Tags: Towson, Perry Hall High School, Baltimore County, Howard County
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Dance seeks out disengaged students
Although dozens are vying for Dallas Dance's attention in his first days as Baltimore County school superintendent, he plans to seek out disengaged students and parents of private school students, two groups that he hopes respectively to keep and to...
Tags: Pikesville, Kevin Kamenetz, Nancy Grasmick, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Lobbying
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Dance challenges school system to set goals and embrace a 'barrage of ideas'
Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent S. Dallas Dance last week set his expectations for "Team BCPS" — calling on educators to working together with parents, students and the community to make the county school system the best in the...
Tags: Public Schools, Teaching and Learning, Education, Schools, Students
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Hairston talks about Baltimore County schools' successes
Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joe A. Hairston formally announced Friday that he will leave his post this June, saying he has a record of success. Speaking at a news conference, Hairston pointed to improved academic achievement of African-...Tags: Hurricane Irene (2011), African Americans, Political Corruption, Knees, Teaching and Learning
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