City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0177R

• File #: 14-0177R
• Version: 0
• Name: Complete Education in Baltimore City Public Schools
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 6/16/2014
• In control: Education and Youth Committee
• Final action: 12/5/2016
• Title: Complete Education in Baltimore City Public Schools FOR the purpose of requesting that Baltimore City Public Schools report to the City Council on whether a complete education is being provided to students in City public schools, the availability of arts education and physical education in our schools, and the extent to which students have access to vigorous and broad educational opportunities as part of their core curriculum.
• Sponsors: President Young, Brandon M. Scott, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, Warren Branch, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, William H. Cole, IV, Nick Mosby, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran
• Indexes: Education, Public Schools, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/8/2014	0	Education and Youth Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/19/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/16/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
6/16/2014	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: President Young



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Complete Education in Baltimore City Public Schools

FOR the purpose of requesting that Baltimore City Public Schools report to the City Council on whether a complete education is being provided to students in City public schools, the availability of arts education and physical education in our schools, and the extent to which students have access to vigorous and broad educational opportunities as part of their core curriculum.
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Recitals

A focus on basic education that leaves arts education and physical education aside ignores the competencies demanded by the complex, modern world in which Baltimore City Public Schools students are expected to thrive. This modern world requires leaders that are innovative, creative, and have received a strong, broad, complete education from a young age.

An Afro article dated May 1, 2014 quoted former assistant state superintendent Richard Deasy as explaining that "The arts?instill capacities that are broadly transferable to other areas of life. For example, imagination, creativity, and innovation are all central to entrepreneurship and thus economic vibrancy." As recently as April 2014, advocates told the Baltimore Sun that "the arts - which include music, art, theater and dance - have fallen to the bottom of the district's budgets and priority lists, leaving many children w...