City schools CEO Alonso resigns, Revolutionary War-era ironmaking at Catoctin, the Catonsville Nine

Summary: May 7, 2013 Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso is retiring at the end of June. We ask WYPR education reporter Gwendolyn Glenn what his six-year tenure means for the city’s kids. Catoctin Furnace in Western Maryland fashioned iron into bombshells to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. It closed in 1903 with iron ore to spare. Elizabeth Anderson Comer, editor of a new book on the furnace, tells us why. Forty-five years ago, a protest group known as the "Catonsville 9" changed the way Americans view the Vietnam War. Author Shawn Peters talks with Tom Hall about the impact they made.