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Give City Council a bigger role in school funding
While many people returned from vacations over Memorial Day weekend to comfortable office buildings, young people across the city sat in sweltering classrooms as the outside heat index hovered around 105 degrees this week.
The danger of overheating...Tags: Punishment, American Civil Liberties Union, Maryland, Fines, Memorial Day
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Baltimore school fund: Right problem, wrong solution
![Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is absolutely right that the city's school buildings are badly outdated and that the city is not doing nearly enough to reduce the backlog of maintenance problems, estimated at some $2.8 billion. As children are sent home because their non-air-conditioned schools are too hot to provide a conducive learning environment, he has picked a good time to remind the city that the poor state of school facilities has a real effect on academic achievement. However, the means through which he has chosen to address the issue — a charter amendment he and Councilman James Kraft have introduced to create a special fund for school facilities improvements — is both problematic in terms of city policy and unlikely to make a serious dent in the problem.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62039604-01131504.jpg "Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack\" Young is absolutely right that the city's school buildings are badly outdated and that the city is not doing nearly enough to reduce the backlog of maintenance problems, estimated at some $2.8 billion. As children are sent home because their non-air-conditioned schools are too hot to provide a conducive learning environment, he has picked a good time to remind the city that the poor state of school facilities has a real effect on academic achievement. However, the means through which he has chosen to address the issue — a charter amendment he and Councilman James Kraft have introduced to create a special fund for school facilities improvements — is both problematic in terms of city policy and unlikely to make a serious dent in the problem.")
Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is absolutely right that the city's school buildings are badly outdated and that the city is not doing nearly enough to reduce the backlog of maintenance problems, estimated at some $2.8 billion. As...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Budgets and Budgeting, Punishment, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Finance
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Mayor to unveil new City Council map
For months now, members of the Baltimore City Council have been telling Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake what they'd like to see when she draws new boundaries for their districts. Staffers say the redistricting plan she is scheduled to unveil Monday...Tags: Pigtown, Washington (U.S. state), William H. Cole IV, Belinda Conaway, Highlandtown
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Speaking of corkage, it's on tonight's City Council agenda
Dining@LargeCorkage is on the Baltimore City Council agenda tonight, in the form of a "Request for State Legislation" Basically, this means that the council can't go around changing the city's liquor laws, but a thumbs-up from them would be a......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Washington, DC, Maryland, Dining and Drinking
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Prosecutor, council leader want independent audit of rape case
Baltimore's top prosecutor and City Council president called Wednesday for an outside agency to investigate rape complaints summarily dismissed by police detectives, saying that independent eyes are needed to ensure citizens' faith in the results....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Sex Crimes, Maryland, Sex, Lawyers
Jun 1, 2011
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Aug 4, 2010
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