Baltimore school system struggles to process vendor payments; City Council calls for hearing

Baltimore City Council members are planning a hearing with city school officials over the system’s recent problems with late payments to vendors. Councilmembers Robert Stokes and John Bullock proposed the hearing during Monday’s City Council meeting, which followed reports by vendors who say Baltimore City Public Schools hasn’t paid them for their contracted services, some of which have amounted to thousands of dollars. Other vendors were paid late.