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Now there's a different affirmative action policy. Suppose that 
has anything to do with the sorry state of baltimore schools when
skin color has more do do than test scores?


35% OF BALTIMORE TEACHERS AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTED FROM 2 BLACK COLLEGES
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Teacher recruiting criticized Abell study says city does poor job of
hiring best prospects; Policies `under review'; Report recommends
mentoring for newcomers to field By Liz Bowie Baltimore Sun 2/10/99
The study is critical of a school policy of accepting all graduates
of [predominantly black ] Coppin State College and Morgan State
University who meet the application requirements, saying that school
officials should focus more efforts on recruiting at universities
with higher academic standards. [much lower than the average of 1,092
at other state universities and colleges] she understands the school
system's sensitivity to hiring African-American teachers because the
majority of pupils are black About 35 percent of teachers hired in
1996 and 1997 from colleges and universities in Maryland came from
Morgan and Coppin