Dismissal

As Calvert Hall's football team prepares to faces DeMatha tonight, the Stags are dealing with an alleged incident involving prostitutes in their hotel room during last week's road trip, which brought disciplinary action against five players from the Hyattsville Catholic school. The Washington Post reported that five DeMatha players were dismissed from the team last week after they allegedly hired prostitutes early in the morning following their Aug. 31 season-opening win over Hillside in Durham, N.C..

The city school board reinstated a principal Monday night who had been fired by CEO Andrés Alonso over alleged cheating at her school. But the reinstatement of Abbottston Elementary School Principal Angela Faltz won't take effect until 2013, and she won't receive back pay. Board members also upheld Alonso's decision to dismiss Marcy Isaac, the assistant principal of Abbottston Elementary, who had been testing coordinator. "The decision made this evening was a travesty to the Baltimore Public School System," said Jimmy Gittings, president of the administrators union, which has been fighting the dismissals for more than a year.

A federal court has dismissed a case against a rehabilitation hospital owned by the University of Maryland Medical System that was accused of diagnosing patients with a rare malnutrition-related disorder to collect bigger Medicare and Medicaid payments. The federal government filed a $8.1 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Kernan Hospital last year, saying the West Baltimore facility manipulated its computer system to show that patients suffered from kwashiorkor, a disease most typically found in impoverished regions.

Maryland's District Court has tossed out nearly 3,600 debt-collection cases against state residents — with about $7.8 million in claims — as a result of a settlement with regulators over alleged violations. District Court Chief Judge Ben C. Clyburn said in a statement Wednesday that the cases, brought by sister companies LVNV and Resurgent Capital Services, are eligible to be filed again later because they were dismissed without prejudice. LVNV buys consumer debts while Resurgent tries to collect.

Lawyers representing the NCAA have filed a brief supporting the dismissal of a lawsuit that Ravens linebacker Michael McAdoo filed after the NCAA declared him ineligible for academic fraud and impermissible benefits while he was at the University of North Carolina. This, according to a report from The Charlotte Observer . After he was suspended indefinitely, McAdoo sued the NCAA, the university and UNC chancellor Holden Thorp in July 2011. The lawsuit was dismissed in November, but McAdoo appealed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Howard County school board member Allen Dyer testified Friday in the case brought by the board to remove him, stating that despite being at odds with some fellow members he has "contributed to a better board of education. " The Howard school board requested in June 2011 that the state board remove Dyer in a resolution that accused him of such infractions as breaching confidentiality requirements, undermining the board's function and bullying. Throughout the administrative law hearings, Dyer has contended that the grounds for dismissal are vague and without merit.

Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake continued to spar Monday over the purchase of phone-related equipment by the mayor's technology office, purchases Pratt says violate city procurement regulations. Pratt, who has released records documenting the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars of phone equipment, said she disagreed with City Solicitor George Nilson's recent written opinion that the transaction was appropriate. "Mr Nilson can describe this purchase in any way that he wishes, but the fact remains that there was no basis for the Mayor's Office of Information Technology to procure a telephone system outside the charter-mandated process," Pratt said Monday after a meeting of the city's spending board.

Attorneys representing the two Baltimore principals who were recommended for reinstatement last month, after they were dismissed amid suspicion that their school had cheated on state tests , will present their case before the city school board on Tuesday. The board will decide whether to uphold the decisions of two independent hearing officers, who determined that the school system's investigation into test-tampering allegations at Abbottston Elementary School was fundamentally flawed and based on little evidence; or to uphold city schools CEO Andres Alonso's decision to dismiss the principals after the school's scores dropped drastically in 2010 from 100 percent proficiency marks the year prior, and other school system analyses indicated that adults had tampered with tests.

A report last week recommending all charges be dropped against two city school department employees accused of tampering with student test booklets in order to raise their school's scores on state standardized exams is not only a personal embarrassment for schools CEO Andrés Alonso, who appears to have pursued the allegations long after it was obvious the city couldn't prove its case, but also a serious setback for the school system, whose credibility for...

As the heat index crept toward the 90-degree mark Tuesday morning, Baltimore city social studies teacher Ejaz Baluch watched his students at ConneXions School for the Arts begin to fade. By 11 a.m., when the heat index had risen to 93 degrees, the school called the system's headquarters to see if it would be exercising its longstanding policy to dismiss school if the index reached 90 degrees by 11 a.m.  Teachers across the city began to complain from their sweltering classrooms after they hadn't heard from the school system by midafternoon.