City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0180R

• File #: 09-0180R
• Version: 0
• Name: Development of a National Student Bill of Rights
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 12/10/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/10/2009
• Title: Development of a National Student Bill of Rights FOR the purpose of endorsing and supporting the effort by the Baltimore Algebra Project to develop local proposals for development of the National Student Bill of Rights and commending the Baltimore City Youth Commission for convening a Citywide Youth Forum to discuss and debate the rights to be locally adopted.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Rochelle Spector, Robert Curran, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/10/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
12/10/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
12/10/2009	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: Councilmember Clarke


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Development of a National Student Bill of Rights

FOR the purpose of endorsing and supporting the effort by the Baltimore Algebra Project to develop local proposals for development of the National Student Bill of Rights and commending the Baltimore City Youth Commission for convening a Citywide Youth Forum to discuss and debate the rights to be locally adopted.
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WHEREAS, The Education Committee of the Baltimore City Council conducted a public hearing on Thursday, November 19, 2009, with representatives of the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) and other attendees, to learn more about the growing impetus among students across the nation to formulate a National Student Bill of Rights; and

WHEREAS, The overriding theme of this effort is to establish the right of our students of all ages to secure a quality education that prepares them for jobs in our knowledge-based economy, in secure, sound, and sanitary school facilities that use updated textbooks and provide a variety of extracurricular activities - including athletics and free driver education - as well as diverse, fulfilling, and home-cooked school meals for breakfast and lunch; and

WHEREAS, Although not yet endorsing this growing effort, the Baltimore City Youth Commission dispatched representatives...