Rally Tonight in Annapolis for Baltimore City Schools (Quick Links)

Wish every Baltimore City Public School could look something like this? Rally tonight at 6pm on Lawyer’s Mall in Annapolis.

For more about the issue, click around:

• Check out this site for all the legislative info you’ll need and ways to show your support: Transform Baltimore
• Preview of tonight’s event: Supporters predict large turnout for schools rally in Annapolis: Baltimore advocates seeking construction funds, Michael Dresser, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 25, 2013
• Yasmene Mumby and Elizabeth Reichelt of the Baltimore Education Coalition on Dan Rodricks: Download the mp3 and start listening around 32:45.
• Alonso: Chances good Baltimore will get block grant, WBAL-TV11 Feb. 22, 2013

Wanna get on a bus? Looks like limited seats are still available on buses leaving from Poly and Northwood Elementary: For emails and phone numbers of bus captains click here: http://www.becforourkids.org/

Tonight in Hampden: The Neighborhood School Event of My Dreams!

Not your mama’s PTO meeting.

Re:education in Baltimore: Baltimore Brew Edition

Have you ever witnessed an exchange that you couldn’t get out of your head for days? Like seeing a total stranger quit her job on the spot, or watching a fight go down in the street? That’s what the last meeting of the Hampden Community Council was for me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. And talking about it. So I sat down (during the Super Bowl, with the radio on in the background) to write about it. Thanks to Fern Shen and Mark Reutter at the Baltimore Brew, I got to share my writing with some of the most thoughtful and engaged readers in town.

Here it is, my Brew debut.

This Week in Five Links (Caw! Caw!)

1. Greening, Hoop House at Hampden School Angers Neighbors, Adam Bednar, North Baltimore Patch, Jan. 29, 2013
2. Too Many Teachers Are Quitting, Experts Warn, Janet Bagnall, The Montreal Gazette, Feb. 1, 2013
3. More Lessons About Charter Schools, Editorial, New York Times, Feb. 2, 2013
4. Dismantling Public Accountability & Transparency in the Name of Accountability & Transparency? Bruce D. Baker, School Finance 101, Feb 2, 2013
5. Baltimore Ravens Win Super Bowl, Defeating San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, Jeff Zrebiec, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 3, 2013