City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0315R

• File #: 07-0315R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Public School System Suspension Policies
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 7/16/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/3/2007
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Public School System Suspension Policies FOR the purpose of inviting the CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System to discuss current policies governing in- and out- of school suspension; to provide information on specific behaviors that result in suspension and the period of time students are suspended for each infraction; to address systemwide consistency in suspension policy; and to share the Department's plan to develop an alternative to out-of-school suspension that insures that public school students remain in a learning environment when subject to disciplinary action.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Mary Pat Clarke, Keiffer Mitchell, James B. Kraft, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Vernon E. Crider, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/3/2007	0	City Council	Adopted
10/29/2007	0	Education Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/24/2007	0	Education Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing	Pass
7/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/16/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
7/16/2007	0	City Council	Assigned
7/16/2007	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: President Rawlings-Blake


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Public School System Suspension Policies

FOR the purpose of inviting the CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System to discuss current policies governing in- and out- of school suspension; to provide information on specific behaviors that result in suspension and the period of time students are suspended for each infraction; to address systemwide consistency in suspension policy; and to share the Department's plan to develop an alternative to out-of-school suspension that insures that public school students remain in a learning environment when subject to disciplinary action.
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In 2006, the City Council adopted 2 Resolutions examining reports on the dismal graduation rates in Baltimore City Public Schools. The first examined a report from the Manhattan Institute, Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates, that found in 2003, Baltimore ranked 91st of the 100 largest school districts in the country, with an overall graduation rate of 48%, in 2003. The second discussed a report of the Education Research Center, Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates, that found in the same year that Baltimore City's high schools had the 2nd worst graduation rate among the nation's 50 largest school systems.

The following year, in a cont...