Public Education Programs
Resources
This is just a sampling of our resources, partners, and projects! Please contact Susan Fort at sfort@greaterhomewood.org for additional information or if you have questions.
Advocacy for Better Schools
- Parent Community Response Center
(443) 984-2020 - Baltimore City Public Schools School Board
http://www.bcps.k12.md.us/School_Board/ - Baltimore City Council
http://www.baltimorecitycouncil.com - Mayor’s Office
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/mayor - Maryland General Assembly
http://mlis.state.md.us - ACLU or Maryland Education Reform project
http://www.aclu-md.org/aTop%20Issues/Education%20
Reform/About_ERP.html
For Parents
- Baltimore City Public School System
http://www.bcps.k12.md.us - Maryland Report Card
http://www.mdreportcard.org - Maryland State Department of Education
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE - Great Schools
http://www.Greatschools.org - MD Institute for Parent Leadership
http://www.familyservicesagency.org/site/
PageServer?pagename=par_pli_new - National PTA
http://www.pta.org - Parents Count – Maryland Business Roundtable
http://www.mbrt.org/parents/default.asp
For Neighborhoods
- Live Baltimore – schools statistics and links
http://www.livebaltimore.com/res/edu - Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
http://www.bnia.org - Healthy Neighborhoods
http://www.healthyneighborhoods.org
Community Schools
- Coalition for Community Schools
http://www.communityschools.org - Baltimore Community School Connections
http://www.baltimoreconnections.org - Family League of Baltimore City
http://www.flbcinc.org
A Sampling of Our Partners
- AmeriCorps VISTA/Corporation for National Service
http://www.americorps.gov/about/programs/vista.asp - AmeriCorps*VISTA – to apply
https://recruit.cns.gov/quicksearchForm.asp - Experience Corps
http://www.experiencecorps.org - Goucher College
http://www.goucher.edu - Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhu.edu - Loyola College
http://www.loyola.edu - First English Lutheran
http://www.firstenglishlutheran.org - Bolton Street Synagogue
http://www.boltonstreet.org - Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church
http://stmarkscelebrates.org - University Baptist Church
http://www.ubcbaltimore.org - Second Presbyterian Church
http://www.secondpresby.org - St. Andrew’s Christian Community
http://saintandrewscc.org - The Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation
http://thecathedral.ang-md.org
Vision Matters
- LensCrafters’ Give the Gift of Sight Foundation
http://www.givethegiftofsight.org - Lions Clubs of Central Maryland
http://www.22alions.org - Lions Association for Sight and Hearing of Maryland
- Maryland Society for Sight
http://www.mdsocietyforsight.org