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With state plans at bay, city acts to save schools: Officials move quickly after winning back control in legislature.
Byline: Sara Neufeld
Apr. 12--A day after they won the battle to maintain authority over 11 failing schools, Baltimore officials unveiled a plan yesterday to exert more control over those schools and to attract talented principals to some of them with financial incentives.
The 11 schools that were slated for outside takeovers will now report directly to Chief Executive Officer Bonnie S. Copeland's senior staff, who will visit the schools weekly. The system will offer financial incentives to its best principals to work in the seven middle schools that were on the takeover list.
And it will proceed with plans to break up Frederick Douglass, Northwestern and Patterson high schools, while closing Southwestern High No. 412 by 2007 and Dr. Roland N. Patterson Sr. Academy by 2008.
"There is no time to celebrate," city school board Chairman Brian D. Morris said after the Senate's vote Monday to override Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s veto of a bill imposing a one-year moratorium on takeovers of 11 schools. "The only thing that counts will be how well and how quickly we achieve our academic goals and restore public confidence in our ability to enable our students to achieve academically."
In addition to the reforms the system is initiating on…
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