Baltimore City Council
File #: 06-0168R    Version: 0 Name: Baltimore City Public School System - Our Kids, Our Village
Type: City Council Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 4/24/2006 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 4/24/2006
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Title: Baltimore City Public School System - Our Kids, Our Village For the purpose of urging the CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System, with the support of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, to forge a comprehensive plan of action to restructure the system within the1 year grace period secured by the Baltimore City Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to comply with reasonable State requirements; soliciting the local business and academic communities to volunteer their expertise, knowledge, and workforce to assist schools and individual students; imploring families, communities, and faith-based organizations to embrace, support, and mentor students; and calling upon the entire urban village of Baltimore to unite and to give truth and life to that old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Sponsors: President Dixon, Keiffer Mitchell, Robert Curran, President Young, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Kenneth Harris, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke
Indexes: School, School Commissioners
Attachments: 1. 06-0168R - 1st Reader.pdf

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Baltimore City Public School System - Our Kids, Our Village

 

For the purpose of urging the CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System, with the support of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, to forge a comprehensive plan of action to restructure the system within the1 year grace period secured by the Baltimore City Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to comply with reasonable State requirements; soliciting the local business and academic communities to volunteer their expertise, knowledge, and workforce to assist schools and individual students; imploring families, communities, and faith-based organizations to embrace, support, and mentor students; and calling upon the entire urban village of Baltimore to unite and to give truth and life to that old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

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