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This morning on WEAA’s Marc Steiner Show, leaders of the OSI-funded Baltimore Education Coalition (BEC), talked about ongoing efforts to get local leaders to fix the $130 million gap in the Baltimore City Public Schools budget for academic year 2017-18. Listen to the whole conversation here. “We’re asking for the mayor and the governor to get […]

This week Justice Policy Institute, an OSI-Baltimore grantee, released “Raising the Age: Shifting to a Safer and More Effective Juvenile Justice System,” which shows promising results from states that have raised the age of those who can be absorbed into the juvenile justice system. According to the report, in the past 10 years, half of the […]

Students at schools throughout Baltimore City mailed postcards to Mayor Catherine Pugh and Governor Larry Hogan today, in a demonstration organized by the Baltimore Education Coalition, an OSI-Baltimore grantee. The postcards urge the mayor and governor to fix the $130 million budget gap in funding for Baltimore city schools in the next academic year. The […]

This week, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in response to the exploding opioid overdose crisis, pledging an additional $10 million for substance use resources. While it’s not yet clear how this extra funding will be used, OSI-Baltimore welcomed the news. “It is great to see the Governor putting more funding into […]