City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0249R

• File #: 11-0249R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Community Schools Initiative
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/7/2011
• In control: Education Committee
• Final action: 2/28/2011
• Title: Informational Hearing - Community Schools Initiative FOR the purpose of calling on the Education Committee of the Baltimore City Council to convene a hearing with all interested parties to examine the current status of Baltimore City’s Community Schools Initiative, and to determine how the City can best continue or expand its current level of support for the Initiative.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Carl Stokes, President Young, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Community Schools, Education, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/28/2011	0	Education Committee	Recommended Favorably
2/28/2011	0	City Council	Adopted
2/24/2011	0	Education Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
2/10/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/7/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
2/7/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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: Councilmember Clarke

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Community Schools Initiative

FOR the purpose of calling on the Education Committee of the Baltimore City Council to convene a hearing with all interested parties to examine the current status of Baltimore City’s Community Schools Initiative, and to determine how the City can best continue or expand its current level of support for the Initiative.
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Community Schools are a strategy to leverage and direct services to children and their families right in their own neighborhood school. Baltimore currently has 18 Community Schools, funded by the City of Baltimore and City Schools. Each of these schools has a dedicated staffperson whose job it is to identify and coordinate volunteers and supportive services that allow students to perform better and create stronger schools and neighborhoods.

Partnerships between communities and schools connect children with the services they need. Last year, Community Schools coordinated 404 local partnerships with schools, providing services worth over $8.5 million at a cost of $1.1 million. This includes vision and dental screenings, tutoring and mentoring, enriching extracurricular activities, art and music instruction, direct food aid to families, and more.

Community Schools respond to the societal factors, family circumstances, povert...