Additional school spending to be down payment for implementing the Kirwan educational reforms
BUILD Leaders Call on Baltimore Mayor Young to Commit Significant New Funding to Education
WHAT: BUILD leaders meet with Baltimore Mayor Young to demand he commit major new local funding to schools
WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2019; 6:30pm
WHERE: Memorial Baptist Church, 1311 N. Caroline St., Baltimore, MD 21213
WHO: Hundreds of BUILD leaders from affiliated institutions across the city; Mayor Young
Hundreds of Baltimoreans affiliated with BUILD will meet with Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and call on him to allocate significant new funding for additional spending in public schools.
The additional funds are urgently needed to strengthen schools and improve educational programming for our children after many years of underfunding by several mayors.
By devoting additional local spending to education, the city of Baltimore would show it is committed to fully funding the implementation of the Kirwan Commission’s proposed educational reform plan. That plan and a state funding package to implement it will be considered by the General Assembly in the legislative session beginning in January.
“BUILD is sending a message to Annapolis that Baltimore is doing its part to fund the Kirwan plan,” said Pastor Michael Martin of Stillmeadow Community Fellowship. “We call on Mayor Young to stand with our communities and our kids and commit more local funds to improve education in Baltimore. Children’s lives are at stake, and we cannot continue to accept the poor performance many of our schools have.”
Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) is a broad-based, non-partisan, interfaith, multiracial community power organization rooted in Baltimore’s neighborhoods and congregations. BUILD is dedicated to making our city a better place for all Baltimoreans to live and thrive. For more than 40 years, BUILD has worked to improve housing, increase job opportunities, and rebuild schools and neighborhoods, among other issues.