Liz Bowie
Education Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Education reporter for The Baltimore Banner
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Liz Bowie
Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner for three and a half years as its first editor-in-chief, building it from a concept written on a sheet of paper into a Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization with a growing subscriber base, told her staff Thursday that she will leave her job to become a senior editor at The Washington Post.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Liz Bowie
The Collegiate Gothic high school building with a 150-foot-tall stone tower has stood on a hill in Northeast Baltimore for nearly a century. Now the historic building that houses one of the city’s selective high schools isslated for a face-lift that would wrap a back corner of the building in an austere modern facade. That design for Baltimore City College is undergoing its final review for the public on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the school and online.
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3 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Liz Bowie
Baltimore City charter school leaders say they are owed $30 million more for next school year than the city schools has budgeted to give them. The ongoing dispute between Baltimore’s school system and its 31 charter schools came to another turning point this month when Maryland State School Superintendent Carey Wright sent a memo to the state’s school systems telling them to follow certain rules when deciding how to fund charters.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Liz Bowie
Maryland state education officials say the federal government owes them $232 million that was promised — and they want their money. If they don’t get it, there could be a big hole in the state’s budget, and perhaps those of some local school districts’, too. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has filed suit with other attorneys general across the nation to get reimbursed. The state education officials have billed the federal government — multiple times — and haven’t heard back for weeks.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Liz Bowie |Holly Ramer
Maryland’s Attorney General, along with attorneys general in 18 other states, filed a lawsuit Friday that challenges the Trump administration’s attempts to force schools to eliminate diversity programs or face the loss of federal funding for high-poverty schools.
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