Found on the same page in The Baltimore Sun:

[article 1]

More than 100 members of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County lobbied the county school board yesterday to increase salaries, maintain health care benefit levels, raise tuition reimbursement and decrease paperwork for teachers.Contract negotiations are set to begin in November.

Teachers “are burning out, becoming frustrated and planning to leave,”

[article 2]

More than 40 percent of Baltimore County high school students did not earn a passing score on the English II section of the state’s High School Achievement test, according to information presented at last night’s school board meeting.Of the nearly 8,700 county high school students who took the test, slightly less than 42 percent did not receive a passing score. However, this marks an improvement from the previous year, when almost 48 percent of county high school students did not pass,

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