Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handful of other places -- notably Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut -- are experimenting with a far more radical way to circumvent bureaucracy: hiring a for-profit company to run their schools. "The idea," says Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey, "is to have a company ready for true accountability that offers a way to pierce the bureaucracy and gives us a model that, if we have the will and courage, could change the collective culture of failure" in urban schools...
...more than five years, the Rev. Norman Handy has been watching the Harlem Park Community School in Baltimore, Maryland. The fortress-like building, set amid the open-air drug markets and boarded-up houses of one of the city's worst neighborhoods, is right across the street from his Unity Methodist Church. The view has not been pretty...
News of Saturday's night party, however, spread around campus and to students visiting for the weekend from schools like Dartmouth, Union, Wellesley, Boston University and the University of Maryland...
Princeton tied Maryland, 2-2, last week and lost to Virginia, 1-0, at the Lanzera/Holiday Inn Classic. The Tigers had not been shut out in 27 straight games...
Thus far, the going has been rocky: it hadn't won since its first game of the season against Maryland-Eastern Shore, eight games...