“Forty members of the Baltimore Teachers Union have deployed across Baltimore for five weeks this summer to shore up school enrollment. More than 1,000 students dropped out or transferred to other school districts last year. And the city school system loses $11,100 in state funding for each student who leaves. The losses contributed to a $130 million budget shortfall this year and the first teacher layoffs in a decade.” -Baltimore Sun
Read the front page article in the Baltimore Sun that features two Baltimore Schools for Baltimore Students B3 Advocates as they canvassed West Baltimore talking to parents and guardians about educational programming available in Baltimore City Schools.