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By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun | November 27, 2012
On Wednesday, the main topic of conversation at Northwestern High School will likely be the school's impending closing and what the move might mean to the current student body. But when school dismissed at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, many Northwestern students and parents hadn't heard a thing about the plan — even though it had been announced more than two hours earlier by Baltimore school officials. Most Northwestern students and parents appeared stunned to hear the news when told by The Baltimore Sun, and some hadn't known that such a move was a possibility.
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By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | October 1, 2012
A Baltimore high school student was listed in stable condition Monday afternoon after he was stabbed in his upper body during an in-school confrontation with another student, school officials said. The Heritage High School student was treated by a school nurse and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital after the incident about 10:45 a.m., city school officials said in a statement released five hours after the stabbing. School officials did not release the grade levels of the students involved.
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By Baltimore Sun staff | June 28, 2011
The assistant principal of a Northeast Baltimore high school was arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing eight Apple iPads that the school was going to use in its graduation ceremony, according to court records. Leonard Sheppard Hart, 38, was arrested at the Antioch Diploma Plus High School on Harford Road and released from central booking on his own recognizance, facing one count of theft under $10,000. A school system spokeswoman said he was placed on administrative leave.
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By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | October 29, 2010
An unlikely scene unfolds daily at City Neighbors High School in Baltimore: Students lounge in cheetah-print beanbag chairs reading books, stretch across stained-wood hutch-style desks as they work on assignments and wash dishes at a kitchen sink. The public charter school, which opened this year with an inaugural ninth-grade class of 90 students, has created a "home away from home" as part of its innovative learning environment. "The idea behind this is, 'How do we make it so that every kid who walks in those doors is known, loved and supported academically,' " said Bobbi Macdonald, the school's founder and self-described "relentless shopper" as she gave a tour of the building she feverishly decorated before doors opened to students this year.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | August 17, 2010
Sidney Carton, a popular city high school math teacher who made sure his students understood the difference between the Pythagorean theorem, pi r squared, a hypotenuse and other math concepts before leaving his classroom, died Aug. 11 from kidney failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Pikesville resident was 92. Mr. Carton, the son of a retail clothing salesman and a homemaker, was born in Philadelphia, where he spent his early years. He moved in 1923 with his family to the city's Pimlico neighborhood.
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By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | August 10, 2010
Barney Wilson, the principal of Polytechnic Institute since 2004, has been reassigned to Reginald F. Lewis High School, Baltimore City schools CEO Andrés Alonso announced Tuesday. Alonso announced the appointment at the city school board meeting, saying that despite rumors circulating about the shuffle of the school's leadership in recent weeks, the reassignment of Wilson was because the school system needs to "put its best principals in our most challenging schools. " Matthew Woolston, who has served as a teacher, department head and assistant principal at Poly over the past 16 years, was named interim principal.