How did Baltimore do it?

Baltimore City Schools made national headlines last fall when it announced it had slashed its dropout rate by 56 percent over three years. And unlike other districts, it had done so without leaving  black males behind.

When New Haven, Conn. school reform czar Garth Harries heard those results, he shot an email to Baltimore Superintedent Andrés Alonso to ask how he'd done it. 

Alonso invited him to come down and see for himself. And, to our great benefit, The New Haven Independent came along.