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Baltimore County Public Schools approved a public charter school without verifying key information submitted by its executive director, leaving the district unaware. bit.ly/4xzSSOd

On Friday, Jonathan Hugendubler sat at The Brass Tap in Baltimore to watch himself as a contestant on “Jeopardy!” for the first time. Today, we got an interview with him and also put his trivia skills to the test. 🎥: Caleb Townsend, @baltimoresun

Baltimore County teachers have a tentative union deal with the school district as of Wednesday afternoon. bit.ly/4kLRGQF

The Baltimore County union representing over 9,000 teachers approved a motion to instate work-to-rule, walk-ins and walkouts during its ongoing compensation negotiations with the school district. The Teachers Association of Baltimore County announced in a news release Thursday that its school representatives approved the labor actions intended to show solidarity the day before. TABCO held rallies throughout the county Tuesday in support of its three-year negotiated compensation agreement with Baltimore County Public Schools. The second year of the agreement would have provided a 5% increase in pay, the union has said. Read more: bit.ly/43j6Rvn 📸: Karl Merton Ferron, @baltimoresun

Charles “Charley” J. Scalies Jr., best known for his role as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa on HBO’s “The Wire,” died Thursday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Scalies, 84, was a sales executive at a precision manufacturing firm and had his own consulting business before his roles in “The Wire,” “The Sopranos” and Baltimore native Barry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights,” according to the obituary posted by Moore, Snear & Ruggiero Funeral Home. Horseface is a union cargo checker in the second season of “The Wire,” which centers on Baltimore’s ports. For the role, Philadelphia-native Scalies channeled the blue-collar men he grew up around, like those in his father’s pool hall, he told the magazine. Read more: bit.ly/3RRzfhM 📸: Handout

Do Baltimore’s big development ambitions have a pothole problem? An analysis of recent 311 data by The Baltimore Sun shows that over 4,800 pothole reports have been logged in Baltimore’s 311 system this year. City road crews said they will patch up to 100 potholes “on a good day.” Read more: bit.ly/4jXfrW9 🎥: Lloyd Fox & @DanBelson_ , @baltimoresun

The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. bit.ly/3RbENTO

North Baltimore residents and the Johns Hopkins University are fighting over the construction of the school’s Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute. The school plans on cutting down a total of 92 trees and then planting 424 new trees to replace the ones lost during construction. Some residents are skeptical the replacement trees will have the same benefits. Read more: bit.ly/4jh6x5n 📸: Kevin Richardson, The Baltimore Sun