• A common-sense approach to school discipline

    We actually did it. After the debates, public hearings and letter-writing campaigns, advocates for school disciplinary reform heard a decision from the Maryland State Board of Education that was three years in the making. The Board decided to eliminate zero tolerance policies and enact a common-sense approach to school discipline.

  • A Call For Applicants: 2014 Baltimore Community Fellowships

    The Open Society Institute-Baltimore launched the Community Fellowships program in 1998. It is now a corps of social innovators over 140 strong…

  • Maryland is ready for reform

    Time and again, the ACLU receives calls from Marylanders, usually poor and of color, who have fallen victim to the failed war on drugs. Many describe the illegal searches and verbal intimidation they experienced at the hands of law enforcement officers in the misguided, racially biased, and endless hunt for marijuana.