City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0222R

• File #: 10-0222R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Funding the Baltimore City Public Schools’ Comprehensive Educational Facilities Master Plan
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 9/20/2010
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Funding the Baltimore City Public Schools’ Comprehensive Educational Facilities Master Plan FOR the purpose of calling for a hearing to discuss deficient City school facilities, find solutions to modernize all City school buildings, and develop a funding strategy to raise the $2.8 billion needed to implement the school system’s Facilities Master Plan.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Carl Stokes, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, William H. Cole, IV, President Young, James B. Kraft
• Indexes: Baltimore City Public School System, Funding

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/23/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/23/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/20/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
9/20/2010	0	City Council	Assigned
9/20/2010	0	Education Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* 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 - Funding the Baltimore City Public Schools’ Comprehensive Educational Facilities Master Plan

FOR the purpose of calling for a hearing to discuss deficient City school facilities, find solutions to modernize all City school buildings, and develop a funding strategy to raise the $2.8 billion needed to implement the school system’s Facilities Master Plan.
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WHEREAS, improving our public education system is essential to create equity, opportunity, and economic stability in Baltimore City; and

WHEREAS, Baltimore’s Educational Code states that “the public schools of the City of Baltimore are intended to promote the general welfare of its citizens;” and

WHEREAS, Baltimore City public school students deserve to attend school in new or newly- renovated school buildings that support their intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth; and

WHEREAS, the City Schools Comprehensive Educational Facilities Master Plan of 2010 (“Facilities Master Plan”) reports that about 70% of the City’s public school buildings are in poor condition, and therefore inadequate for learning in the 21st century; and

WHEREAS, numerous studies have repeatedly shown a strong relationship between deficient school buildings and both lower student academic achievement and attendance, as well as lower te...