City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0316R

• File #: 07-0316R
• Version: 0
• Name: Back to School Welcome
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/13/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/13/2007
• Title: Back to School Welcome FOR the purpose of welcoming Baltimore City school students back to school, congratulating City elementary and middle public school students for impressive gains on the 2007 Maryland School Assessment, supporting high school students in their quest to "stay the course" until graduation, encouraging all students to strive for academic excellence in the upcoming 2007-2008 session, urging parents and guardians to take an active role in assisting students in academic and extra-curricular endeavors, and committing to direct governmental resources to improving schools, making our streets safe, and providing safe havens and meaningful after-school activities for Baltimore City's youth.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Helen L. Holton, President Young, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Vernon E. Crider, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/13/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
8/13/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Back to School Welcome

FOR the purpose of welcoming Baltimore City school students back to school, congratulating City elementary and middle public school students for impressive gains on the 2007 Maryland School Assessment, supporting high school students in their quest to "stay the course" until graduation, encouraging all students to strive for academic excellence in the upcoming 2007-2008 session, urging parents and guardians to take an active role in assisting students in academic and extra-curricular endeavors, and committing to direct governmental resources to improving schools, making our streets safe, and providing safe havens and meaningful after-school activities for Baltimore City's youth.
Body
Recitals

At the close of the 2006-2007 school year, the interim CEO announced that Baltimore City Public Schools' elementary and middle students continue to advance on annual State achievement tests at almost every grade level in reading and mathematics; that students in grades 3 - 8 made impressive gains in mathematics on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA), and that grades 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 made gains in reading. Students in grades 4, 5, and 6 achieved double digit mathematics gains in the percentage of students achieving proficient or advanced on State tests, and 4th and 6th grade performances in reading were als...