City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0142R

• File #: 06-0142R
• Version: 0
• Name: A Request that the State of Maryland Meet its Constitutional Mandate to Provide Baltimore Public School Students an Adequate Education when Measured by Contemporary Educational Standards
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/6/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 2/6/2006
• Title: A Request that the State of Maryland Meet its Constitutional Mandate to Provide Baltimore Public School Students an Adequate Education when Measured by Contemporary Educational Standards FOR the purpose of requesting that Governor Robert Ehrlich, Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, and State School Superintendent Nancy Grasmick in her role as the CEO of the State School Board comply with the June 30, 2000, court order in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education and provide the children of Baltimore a constitutionally adequate education when measured by contemporary educational standards.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Kenneth Harris, Rochelle Spector, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, President Young, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/6/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
2/6/2006	0	City Council	Introduced

EXPLANATION: Underlining indicates matter added by amendment.
Strike out indicates matter deleted by amendment.
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL 06-0142R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft, President Dixon, Councilmembers Rawlings Blake, Harris,
Spector, Holton, Welch, Young, Reisinger, Curran


A COUNCIL RESOLUTION CONCERNING
Title
A Request that the State of Maryland Meet its Constitutional Mandate to Provide Baltimore Public School Students an Adequate Education when Measured by Contemporary Educational Standards

FOR the purpose of requesting that Governor Robert Ehrlich, Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, and State School Superintendent Nancy Grasmick in her role as the CEO of the State School Board comply with the June 30, 2000, court order in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education and provide the children of Baltimore a constitutionally adequate education when measured by contemporary educational standards.
Body
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Article VII of the Maryland Constitution, as interpreted by the Maryland Court of Appeals in Hornbeck v. Somerset County Bd. of Education, 295 Md. 597 (1983), requires that all students in Maryland's public schools be provided with an education that is adequate when measured by contemporary education standards.

On October 18, 1996, in Bradford v. the Maryland State Board of Education, Judge Joseph H.H. Kaplan found that "the public school children in Baltimore City are not being provided with an education that is adequate when measured by contemporary educational standards."

In April 1997, the General Assembly of Maryland codified the principal terms of a court-sanctioned consent decree entered into by the State Board of Education and the Bradford ...