Rally tonight for Baltimore city schools
Photographer: WMAR
Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Posted: 02/25/2013
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - More than 2,000 community leaders are expected to attend a rally tonight in support of rebuilding City of Baltimore schools.
Specifically, the rally is in support of a block grant bill, a $1.1 million plan to renovate or rebuild about half of the city’s school buildings. Included in the bill -- the creation of a new construction authority that would oversee planning, financing and construction of school projects.
Supporters say the bill is needed because the current system for financing school renovation “will never catch up to the needs of Baltimore city school buildings, the oldest in the state and seriously outmoded.”
The rally is sponsored by the Baltimore Education Coalition and will be held from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Lawyers Mall at the State House in Annapolis.
Check back with ABC2 News as we continue to follow this story.
Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
PRINT
| |
Special Reports
-
SPECIAL REPORT | Day care inspections
SPECIAL REPORT | Thousands of child care center inspections reports are NOW AVAILABLE. Find out what inspectors founds inside day care centers across the state.
-
Inside a Criminal Mind | Jason Scott
SPECIAL REPORT | When it's out of your hands, when your life is at the mercy of an armed, masked man staring down at you from the barrel of a gun in your own home, you grasp at whatever it is you can control; breathing, composure, or faith.
-
SPECIAL REPORT | Bad Medicine
SPECIAL REPORT | ABC2 Investigator Joce Sterman has reviewed thousands of pages of documents for her Bad Medicine report.
More Baltimore City News
-
Two juveniles shot in S. Baltimore
Two juveniles were shot in south Baltimore early Saturday morning.
-
Fans seek shelter as rain hits Preakness
-
Man uses Preakness to thank soldiers
-
VIDEO | Ice cold water outside Preakness
-
PHOTOS | 2013 Preakness Stakes
- Stay Connected
