Mayor scraps plan to close public schools Spread-the-pain' alternative requires forfeiting some pay FINAL Edition

Reversing a budget-cutting decision he acknowledged to be unexpectedly divisive, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke yesterday scrapped his controversial plan to close Baltimore's public schools for a week next month and said he would save money instead by forcing city workers to forfeit their pay from five...

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Published inThe Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)
Main Author Martin C. Evans and Ginger Thompson
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore, Md Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 14.01.1992
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Schmoke, Kurt L
Young, Bernard C (Jack)
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Summary:Reversing a budget-cutting decision he acknowledged to be unexpectedly divisive, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke yesterday scrapped his controversial plan to close Baltimore's public schools for a week next month and said he would save money instead by forcing city workers to forfeit their pay from five holidays. Yesterday Mr. Schmoke acknowledged that his school-closing plan had boomeranged. He, and not Gov. William Donald Schaefer or the General Assembly, came under fire for undermining the value of education in the minds of children and making a mockery of his own promise to make Baltimore "the city that reads." the huge groundswell of public pressure on Annapolis barely materialized. Although there was a demonstration in Annapolis when the General Assembly opened in Annapolis last Wednesday to urge fiscal relief for Baltimore, Mr. Schmoke has borne the brunt of the criticism.
ISSN:1930-8965