Joe A. Hairston

Balto. Co. schools budget would add 100 teachers

2013-01-08 18:52:28

Baltimore County classrooms would have about 100 more teachers next school year under a budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Superintendent Dallas Dance. In his first spending plan since taking the post, Dance presented a $1.3 billion operating budget...

Stoneleigh celebrates start of $18.8 million addition

2012-06-06 11:44:00

A year of advocacy was punctuated with celebration Wednesday morning, June 6, as construction of a 200-seat addition to Stoneleigh Elementary School began with a ceremonial groundbreaking. "Less than a year ago, we were saying, 'What are we going to do?'...

School transition team urges review of achievement gap, discipline policies

2012-10-09 18:51:45

Baltimore County schools should work to more quickly eliminate achievement gaps and ensure that discipline policies are applied consistently to all groups of students, according to recommendations made by the transition team appointed by Superintendent...

Meet Dallas Dance

2012-09-10 03:00:00

New Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance will be the guest at the next Sun Newsmaker Forum this Thursday, when he will answer questions from the public about his plans for the school system and the decisions he has already made. Mr. Dance's...

Dance seeks out disengaged students

2012-06-30 14:15:00

Although dozens are vying for Dallas Dance's attention in his first days as Baltimore County school superintendent, he plans to seek out disengaged students and parents of private school students, two groups that he hopes respectively to keep and to...

Dance challenges school system to set goals and embrace a 'barrage of ideas'

2012-08-21 09:40:00

Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent �S. Dallas Dance �last week set his expectations for "Team BCPS" — calling on educators to working together with parents, students and the community to make the county school system the best in the...

Hairston gave employment contracts to two top aides before retiring

2012-07-13 17:58:00

Former Baltimore County school superintendent Joe A. Hairston signed employment contracts before he retired with two top aides that would pay them nearly a half-million dollars in severance if his successor fired them when bringing in his own leadership...

Hairston contracts raise questions

2012-07-18 00:00:00

The revelation that former Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Joe Hairston supposedly protected two administrative employees who recently have been transferred to other positions raises several huge red flags ("Hairston gave employment contracts to...

Cousin granted pay raises to central office staff before retiring

2012-08-05 13:53:00

Shortly before retiring this summer, Howard County school superintendent Sydney Cousin told employees in the central office that he was giving them a pay raise but did not take the matter before the school board for approval. Some board members say...

Two school officials who had signed contracts with Hairston leave system

2012-08-07 18:53:00

The two high-ranking school employees who signed contracts with former Baltimore County Superintendent Joe A. Hairston before he retired have both left the system. The contracts would have paid the employees nearly a half-million dollars if new...

Balto. County pays $150,000 total to two former school employees

2012-08-10 20:53:21

Baltimore County school leaders have paid a total of $150,989 in a settlement with two high-ranking employees who signed contracts with the former superintendent, even though the school system and new superintendent contend that the contracts were not...

School system agrees to settlement with two employees

2012-08-13 03:00:00

The Baltimore County school board Tuesday night voted to approve numerous retirements and resignations, including those of two employees who signed contracts with the former superintendent that a union official and others have questioned. But the board...

Dr. Joe A. Hairston , Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, smiles as newly named 2012-2013 Teacher of the Year, Angela Rountree, an art teacher at Ridgely Middle School, delivers remarks.

2012-05-03 00:00:00

With Baltimore County Superintendent Joe A. Hairston's announcement that he will be leaving at the end of the school year, county leaders and advocates should put on hold their discussions about changes to the composition of the school board.

2011-10-14 09:37:00

Please be sure to vote in our poll of the day: Has Baltimore County superintendent Joa A. Hairston's 12-year tenure been successful?

2011-10-07 12:25:22