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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Baltimore City Public School System - Transitional Years Intervention Program
FOR the purpose of inviting the CEO and other representatives of the Baltimore City Public School System to brief the City Council on the feasibility of creating a proactive intervention program for transitional year students.
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By creating the Alternative Options model, the Baltimore City Public School System has overhauled alternative programming for at-risk students and insured that those students receive the services that they need. These services are specifically tailored to segments of the student population, whether they are over-aged, dropouts, students with children, or have been given extended suspensions or expulsions.
The City Council is encouraged by all of these efforts and new alternative forms of programming. In addition to these efforts and programs, the Council believes that there should also be a strong emphasis on two specific groups of students. Historically, the transitional years of 6th and 9th grade have been where the school system begins to lose our most at-risk students. Because of what can be a dramatic change of culture, certain students going from elementary to middle school and middle to high school often become disengaged.
The Council requests that the Baltim...
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