Baltimore’s largest high school hasn’t had a principal since June, and the process to appoint the next one has strained an already-fraught relationship between City Schools central office and the Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School community.

Mervo alumni and teachers don’t support the candidate evidently preferred by North Avenue and call the process of naming the next principal “flawed,” “unfair” and “rushed.”

“During this critical time, it is important to have someone in place that is familiar with the school,” states a petition by the Mervo Mustangs Alumni Association for the administration to appoint a Mervo alumnus who worked at the school for about a decade.

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