The WBAL story was picked up on the MSNBC website. Apparently, it’s news when a county decides to stop providing schools for its citizens.
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Archive for January, 2008
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Tim Tooten from WBAL-TV Channel 11 did a lengthy story tonight on Towson’s overcrowded schools.
Click here to read and view the report.
Click here to read Loni Ingraham’s story in this week’s Towson Times. It’s the second story Ingraham has done our Towson Families United, and it does a good job of explaining how the overcrowding affects real people.
Also be sure to check out the two letters to the editor on overcrowding this week. Click here and scroll down to read them.
Then fire off your own letter to the editor. Let people know what you’re thinking!
Jim Smith won’t be attending a meeting in Annapolis today with our state delegation and the county superintendent of schools. This, despite the fact that he’s already in Annapolis and the meeting was planned around his schedule.
Speaking of his schedule, here it is for the next few days. He’s a busy man.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
Annapolis
2:00 p.m. Maryland House of Delegates Ways & Means Committee Meeting
House Office Building, 6 Bladen Street, Room 131, Annapolis 21401
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31
11:00 a.m. Lunch with the Hereford High School Bulls Championship Football Team
Hereford High School, 17301 York Road, Parkton 21120
4:00 p.m. Opening of Shepard Pratt’s Forbush School at Hunt Valley
112301 Pepper Road, Hunt Valley 21031
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
6:00 p.m. The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation’s ASPIRE: A Tribute to Life Coaches
Gala
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore 21202
From Laura Vozzella’s well-read column in the Sun today:
Baltimore County Exec Jim Smith helped serve lunch to River Hill High School football players Monday to settle the bet he had with Howard Exec Ken Ulman on the state’s 2A high school football championship game. “Hey! We can use his help in public school cafeterias right here in Baltimore County,” writes James R. Smith (no relation) of Rodgers Forge, who complains about overcrowding at Rodgers Forge Elementary. “To meet the needs of the grossly overcrowded school, the first students start eating at 11:15 (kind of early, don’t you think?) and the last students aren’t fed until 1:37. Any extra help Mr. Smith can give … will be greatly appreciated.”
Gina Davis, the county education reporter who has been following our story, reports today on a meeting scheduled between School Superintendent Joe Hairston and our 42nd District state delegation. Jim Smith was invited, but — despite the concern he expressed in a recent letter to many of us — doesn’t plan to attend himself.
Click here to read the article.
Ghassan Shah, planning administrator for Baltimore County Public Schools, is coming to Stoneleigh Elementary Feb. 7 at 7 p.m., to answer parents’ questions about overcrowding. The meeting will be held in the cafeteria. We have a feeling there will be a few questions.
Since we launched our organization just shy of two weeks ago, some amazing things have happened. Parents from four different schools in Towson — total strangers until now — have organized into one unified group. People who’ve been frustrated by Baltimore County’s bureaucratic and backward approach to school planning have found an outlet, and a voice.
Professionals who by day work in some of Baltimore’s most high-profile jobs are by night volunteering their services. (This website and blog, for instance.) We have all sorts of talents at our disposal…lawyers, public relations executives, accountants, event planners, writers, teachers, graphic designers, you name it. All ready to do what it takes to get a new elementary school opened in Towson.
In less than two weeks, we’ve registered 250 people. And as our emails circulate, and people download and distribute the flier from our website, our numbers continue to grow steadily every day.
There is, indeed, strength in numbers. And in coming weeks, we plan on flexing a bit of our collective muscle. Thanks for your enthusiasm and your smart ideas. You’re fighting the good fight.
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