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<Title>Dr. Helen Atkinson's op-ed in Baltimore Sun</Title>
<Tagline>Treat neighborhood schools like charters</Tagline>
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    <strong>Dr. Helen Atkinson</strong>, who leads the <a href="http://tdpbaltimore.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Teacher's Democracy Project</a>, an initiative in UMBC’s LLC Doctoral Program, has an op-ed in the July 9th Baltimore Sun about treating neighborhood schools like charters. Dr. Atkinson wrote this article in collaboration with <strong>Corey Gaber</strong>, a 6th grade teacher at a charter school in Baltimore, and<strong> Ben Dalbey,</strong> a parent of two Baltimore city public schools children and an early childhood teacher.</div>
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    <div>You can read the article following the link below:</div>
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    <div><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-traditional-schools-20150708-story.html">http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-traditional-schools-20150708-story.html</a></div>
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<Summary>Dr. Helen Atkinson, who leads the Teacher's Democracy Project, an initiative in UMBC’s LLC Doctoral Program, has an op-ed in the July 9th Baltimore Sun about treating neighborhood schools like...</Summary>
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