Eight schools in Baltimore city, and seven in Baltimore County have been recognized by the state department of education as "reward schools," under a new program that spotlights the state's Title I schools' progress in student achievement.
The "Reward Schools" was developed as part of a state's new accountability plan that has unfolded since it received a waiver from certain No Child Left Behind mandates this past spring. In May, the state was granted flexibility from the law, which had labeled more than half of schools across the country as failures, eliminating sanctions known as the School Improvement process.
