City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0203R

• File #: 06-0203R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Feasability of School for Homeless and Immigrant Children
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/14/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/14/2006
• Title: Informational Hearing - Feasability of School for Homeless and Immigrant Children FOR the purpose of requesting that the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and the Office of Homeless Services report to the Council on the feasability of instituting a school to provide a novel way of assisting and educating homeless and immigrant children and creating an alternative educational resource to the more conventional way of dealing with these children.
• Sponsors: Keiffer Mitchell, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Paula Johnson Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Belinda Conaway, Kenneth Harris, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Children, Homeless, Immigrant, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/14/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
8/14/2006	0	City Council	Adopted

* 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 Mitchell


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - Feasability of School for Homeless and Immigrant Children

FOR the purpose of requesting that the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and the Office of Homeless Services report to the Council on the feasability of instituting a school to provide a novel way of assisting and educating homeless and immigrant children and creating an alternative educational resource to the more conventional way of dealing with these children.
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