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We open our show with a discussion of the Baltimore City Public Schools' policy of offering financial incentives to teachers in order to reduce the number of out-of-school student suspensions. We're joined by:
We take a look at the newly released Baltimore City school system's 10 year plan, which would close some schools and renovate others over the next decade to deal with infrastructural problems. Joining us to discuss the plan and some of the controversy surrounding it are:
We speak with S. Dallas Dance, Superintendent for Baltimore County schools. We will speak to him about his experience leading Baltimore County schools since he started in mid-2012, as well as his past experience as chief middle schools officer in Houston, Texas.
Audits of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) have revealed issues with bookkeeping, debt collection, and millions of unaccounted-for dollars in overtime and overpayment to employees and contractors.
We will discuss the issue of truancy and prevention programs in Baltimore City with
We check in with the Chicago Teachers' Strike that's moved into its second week after a failed attempt to end the strike by Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and lawyers for Chicago Public Schools.
The Chicago teachers' strike is in its second day, with almost 30,000 teachers and support staff walking out over reforms proposed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff. We discuss what the strike means for not just unions but teachers' work lives and the future direction of education in America. Our guests are:
We are joined in our first hour by Baltimore City Schools CEO, Dr. Andrés Alonso. He gives us an update on the state of Baltimore's schools and what we should expect out of this school year.
In the aftermath of the shooting at Perry Hall High School, we take a look at violence in our schools and what can we do about it. We are joined by:
Today, members of the Intersection join us to talk about the state of Baltimore City schools and how they are using media to address their issues with infrastructure. The Intersection is a non-profit that trains teens in community-organizing.
Education advocates in Baltimore say that over 70% of Baltimore public schools are in need of major renovation or replacement. Some of them join us this hour to discuss efforts to allocate funding to improving Baltimore school facilities, which will take an estimated 2.8 billion dollars. Our guests are Terrel Williams, teacher at Holabird Academy, Briana Wills, senior at Baltimore Freedom A
Marc sits down with Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, to talk about the current state of the city's education system. Alonso will address the effects of the new budget on education in Baltimore and his plans to improve city schools.
In the book Hands on the Freedom Plow, authors gather the testimonials of many women's personal narratives of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Civil Rights Movement.
On Friday June 24 at 7PM at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum they are holding a panel discussion of Hands on the Freedom Plow.
Nancy Grasmick, the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, is the longest serving State Superintendent in the country. She's retiring at the end of this school year, and she joins us in the studio to talk about her legacy after 20 years of heading up the Maryland school system.
How has teaching changed in recent years, and how do education experts see it changing in coming years? These questions and others are discussed by our panel this hour, which was taped at Johns Hopkins University on April 25, 2011.
Today Maryland Schools Superintendent of Education Nancy Grasmick announced that she will be stepping down at the end of June. Having served as Superintendent for 20 years, she is the nation's longest-serving education chief. We're joined by two reporters who have covered Grasmick's tenure in office to discuss her legacy and her decision to leave office.
Joining us are:
KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Charter Schools came to Baltimore in 2002 with the founding of the Ujima Village Academy, a middle school serving mostly low income students. They've since expanded with an elementary school, KIPP Harmony Academy. They have some of the highest performing students in the school system, with the Ujim
With federal stimulus money gone and the recession still far from over, Maryland faces a $1.6 billion budget gap this year. In Governor Martin O'Malley's budget proposal for this year, one of the measures he suggests for closing that gap is $94 million in cuts to education. Our guests today debate the necessity of the cuts, and discuss what they would mean for schools, municipalities, stude
Today the Marc Steiner Show takes on the silver screen! Latoya Peterson, editor of racialicious.com, and Darryl Wharton-Rigby, writer/producer and former writer for Homicide, join us to discuss last night's awards.
Last week the Council of the Great City Schools released a report that
documented the staggering achievement gap between black male students
and their peers.
We're joined by Howell S. Baum, author of the new book Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. Why has segregation continued in Baltimore's schools over fifty-five years after legal school segregation was outlawed?
Tony Geraci, the head of the Food and Nutrition Services Department in the Baltimore City Public Schools, updates us on what's being served at schools around the city. Never one for boring bureaucratic talk, Geraci discusses the struggle of making institutional change in the school system, and why he thinks fresh, local food is important to bring to all kids.
In this week's edition of Your Money Matters, Robin McKinney, Director of the Maryland CASH Campaign, discusses teaching financial literacy in public schools.
Then, Stephen Martino, Director of the Maryland State Lottery, joins us to rebut allegations that the state spent too much money purchasing slot machines for a new casino.
We're joined by Howell S. Baum, author of the new book Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. Why has segregation continued in Baltimore's schools over fifty-five years after legal school segregation was outlawed?
First, another installment of Your Money Matters. We talk to Sherry Bender from MECU about credit cards, and what you can do to manage credit card debt and use credit wisely.
We start the hour with a breif update on Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon: a new hearing on the gift card misappropriation case will take place on January 6th 2010 and her sentencing for the existing indictment is set for January 21th. Stay tuned for further details as they develop.
In our first hour, we discuss the role of race in education and how we assist youth in building healthy identities and relationships when they are at their most vulnerable. How can we get children the tools they need for positive outcomes in such a deeply divided system?