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		<title>Lakeland Elementary/Middle School playground&#160;torched</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/11/09/lakeland-elementarymiddle-school-playground-torched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students and staff at Lakeland Elementary/Middle School woke up to a disturbing sight last Friday &#8211; somebody had burned up the slide, jungle-gym and other playground structures at the south Baltimore school. All that remained was a blackened, smouldering mess of plastic and metal. &#8220;It sucks. We don&#8217;t know who did it or how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore students protest &#8220;shameful&#8221; conditions in their&#160;schools</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/11/04/baltimore-students-protest-shameful-conditions-in-their-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City and state lawmakers in the audience applauded as Baltimore students described "disgusting" conditions at their schools – bathrooms without doors on the stalls, classrooms so cold kids have to wear coats and gloves, stifling hot classrooms with windows painted shut. But would these sympathetic, smiling adults embrace a community coalition's $2.8 billion solution?  ]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourced city school tutoring program deeply flawed, report&#160;says</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/09/28/outsourced-city-school-tutoring-program-deeply-flawed-report-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children initialing timesheets for their own tutoring sessions? Frisbees offered to sign up with private tutoring firms? Poor oversight is just one of the problems a new report found with a federal program that has spent $55 million in Baltimore to tutor poor students from failing schools. ]]></description>
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		<title>Victim in Saturday stolen van crash led well-loved youth jazz&#160;band</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police have identified the man who died Saturday when the driver of a stolen van struck his vehicle, as Wendell Hairston, a longtime Baltimore city schools music teacher who led a precocious jazz band at Winston Middle School. Hairston taught in several schools during his 38 years with city schools. He was at Winston, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore braves the rain to save education&#160;funding</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/11/baltimore-braves-the-rain-to-save-education-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Hulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did 1,600 people ignore Thursday night's downpour and go down to Annapolis for a rally in front of the State House? Here are the reasons some of them gave us. ]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertain future for charter school operator&#160;KIPP</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/03/uncertain-future-for-baltimore-charter-school-operator-kipp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Hulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Baltimore&#8217;s most successful charter school operators, KIPP, is battling with the Baltimore Teachers Union over the new contract that limits how much teachers are paid, the Baltimore Sun reports. KIPP schools are known for their extended school days where students are in school for 9 1/2-hours, compared to the more traditional 7 hours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new day at Baltimore&#8217;s City&#160;Springs</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/03/01/a-new-day-at-baltimores-city-springs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Hulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This East Baltimore school has improved and then faltered but lately their test scores are on the rise.
But in the state's eyes, they're still a failing school and for principal Rhonda Richetta, that's pretty frustrating . . .

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		<title>Maryland Board of Education approves new statewide policy on&#160;gangs</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/02/23/maryland-board-of-education-approves-new-statewide-policy-on-gangs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Hulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to the problem of gangs in schools, the Maryland Board of Education has passed a model policy that requires all school systems to set standard consequences, prevention efforts, and remedial resources for those who become involved in a gang, Delmarva Now reports. School systems are charged with preparing their own policy and submitting it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore&#8217;s Alonso orders city school administration&#160;overhaul</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2011/02/11/baltimores-alonso-orders-city-school-administration-overhaul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brew Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso has ordered another reorganization of central office administration and says he doesn&#8217;t know yet if that means cutting jobs, according to The Baltimore Sun, which says , the head of the administrators&#8217; union has told members to brace for layoffs. Alonso, who has slashed the central office from 1,500 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore Education Coalition fights planned cuts to education&#160;budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oliver Hulland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How would Baltimore city schools fare with under the governor's proposed budget? 
"A $15 million dollar reduction in instructional budgets could mean losing one teacher per small school, and up to three teachers per larger high school," according to Andrew Foster Connors, of the Baltimore Education Coalition.]]></description>
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