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Sun's Alonso profile fist-poundingly good

February 11, 2009 at 11:47 am 2

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Details only a beat reporter could get will leave readers as  angry and energized about Baltimore schools as their tender, touchy leader.

The Baltimore Sun’s recent  three-part series on Baltimore schools chief Andres Alonso  is full of great scenes from his early life (bored with his job at a Manhattan law firm, reading ”War and Peace” at his desk) and his life today as Baltimore schools CEO (he’s sitting in a school meeting and a rat scampers by.)

    The rat’s not a cheap shot, either. Writer Sara Neufeld earns it with nuanced descriptions of the Herculean task before Alonso… and anybody who cares about the city .   

   Only a beat reporter who did what Neufeld did — cover endless schoolboard meetings, develop sources over years, conduct hundreds of interviews — could have presented such an authoritative urgent set of stories.

  • http://www.baltimoresun.com/InsideEd Sara Neufeld

    Thanks very much for the kind words.

  • a parent

    Finding this post now renews my sadness that the Sun has lost Sara Neufeld.

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