City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0172R

• File #: 09-0172R
• Version: 0
• Name: American Education Week - November 15-21, 2009 - Great Public Schools: a Basic Right and Our Responsibility
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/16/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/16/2009
• Title: American Education Week - November 15-21, 2009 - Great Public Schools: a Basic Right and Our Responsibility FOR the purpose of honoring the dedicated personnel of the Baltimore City Public School System by celebrating National Education Association American Education Week, expressing appreciation for the many hours of instruction, guidance, and nurturing that they provide to our youth, and encouraging the students, education personnel, and parents of Baltimore City Public schools to continue to strive to achieve excellence.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Belinda Conaway, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Robert Curran, William H. Cole, IV, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Education, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/16/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
11/16/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
11/16/2009	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: President Rawlings-Blake, Councilmember Clarke

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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American Education Week - November 15-21, 2009 - Great Public Schools: a Basic Right and Our Responsibility

FOR the purpose of honoring the dedicated personnel of the Baltimore City Public School System by celebrating National Education Association American Education Week, expressing appreciation for the many hours of instruction, guidance, and nurturing that they provide to our youth, and encouraging the students, education personnel, and parents of Baltimore City Public schools to continue to strive to achieve excellence.
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National Education Week began in 1921, as a collaboration of the National Education Association and the American Legion that was generated by distress that 25% of the country’s World War I draftees were illiterate and 9% were physically unfit. Today, millions of educators, students, and community leaders will join the National Education Association (NEA) in raising awareness about the critical need to provide every child with a quality public education.

The annual tagline, Great Public Schools: a Basic Right and Our Responsibility, spotlights the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education so that they can grow, prosper, and achieve in the 21st Century, and the need for everyone to do his or her part in making public sch...