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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Holton
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Support of American Education Week - November 11-17, 2007
FOR the purpose of expressing support for American Education Week 2007, endorsing this year's theme of Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility that reflects the National Education Association's calling upon America to provide students with quality public schools so that they can grow, prosper, and achieve in the 21st century, and reiterating the commitment of the City Council to ensure that every student in the Baltimore City public school system is the recipient of a quality education on parity to that provided to public school students throughout the State of Maryland.
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In 1919, distressed that 25% of the country's World War I draftees were illiterate and 9 % were physically unfit, representatives of the National Education Association and the American Legion met to seek ways to generate public support for education. The conventions of both organizations subsequently adopted resolutions of support for a national effort to raise public awareness of the importance of education.
In 1921, the National Education Representative Assembly called for designation of one week each year to spotlight education, calling in the inaugurating resolution for: "An education week...observed in all communities annually for the purpose of informing ...
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