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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Harris
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Maryland Freedom Board of Education
FOR the purpose of inviting members of the Maryland Freedom Board of Education to share with the City Council and the general public information on the genesis of the organization, the specific funding and programmatic goals to achieve parity in public education throughout Maryland, the action plan for achieving the goals of the Board, and plans for the future advocacy agenda of the grassroots organization.
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On Saturday afternoon, October 14, 2006, the Baltimore Algebra Project, Baltimore Education Advocates, the Baltimore NAACP, and hundreds of supporters rallied at Green Mount Cemetery to launch Freedom Fall, Baltimore City's new educational rights movement. Inspired by Mississippi's 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights movement, concerned young people and supportive adults later coalesced at the Seventh Baptist Church to demand answers about the deplorable status of the Baltimore City Public School System, and the Maryland Freedom Board of Education (MFBE) was born.
A spokesperson for the Freedom Board reportedly declared that "this is about civil rights - if you don't have the same adequate public education in the city that you have out in the counties - that's inequality there. This system, the courts have ruled, has been chronically underfunded...
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