Baltimore City Power Rankings: Mosby, Terps, Hogan, more

Marilyn Mosby

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Last Thursday, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby made CNN again, announcing that a grand jury had indicted all six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. The grand jury kept most of her original charges, including second-degree depraved-heart murder against officer Caesar R. Goodson, though it dropped the false imprisonment charges against three officers and added reckless endangerment charges for all six. Plenty of legal experts and critics have loudly questioned the validity of Mosby’s original charges, but for now, this still seems like a step forward on the long road to a trial.

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Lillian Lowery

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Just months after the first round of Common Core-aligned PARCC testing began, leading to weeks of disruption for all students in third through 12th grade, the state superintendent of schools rolled back the amount of testing that local students are required to take each year. Instead of sitting for two rounds of testing in March and May, students will only have one round and it will be about 90 minutes shorter than this year. “Next year’s PARCC tests will take less time away from lessons and cause less disruption to school schedules,” said Lowery. Amen to that.

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