Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, now the Dean of Howard University Law School, has recently brokered a potential landmark agreement between Washington public schools and teachers unions.

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At 60, and a decade removed from Baltimore City Hall, Kurt L. Schmoke is busy reinventing himself.

The former mayor is piling new projects on top of a full-time job as dean of Howard University Law School and sinking roots in the Annapolis area, his new home.

“As my wife says, I haven’t abandoned Baltimore, I’ve embraced Maryland,” Schmoke said, with a rolling laugh, during a recent interview at his campus office.

He’s also emerging as something of a power broker in Barack Obama’s Washington — though not in the way some might have expected.

When Schmoke casually drops the name “Michelle” in conversation, he’s referring to D.C .schools chief Michelle Rhee, not the first lady.

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