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Leadership in the community:
City Neighbors strives to not only provide an outstanding public education to the students who enter our doors each morning, but we also strive to serve as a model for what urban public education can be. We strive to prove that urban education can be progressive, child-centered, developmentally appropriate, arts integrated, and community engaged.
11/03/2011 City Neighbors Schools participated in the Transform Baltimore Speak Out! event, joining with students, teachers, and parents from all over the city to fight for decent school buildings for Baltimore Public Schools. Read about it in Baltimore Brew.
3/28/2011 This story by WJZTV features Bobbi Macdonald and her children at the rally at City Hall.
2/25/2011 We support the Baltimore Education Coalition in the fight for proper funding for all schools. Here is a WBAL newstory featuring our very one Josh Samuels and City Neighbors High School, getting ready for the Annapolis Rally.
1/27/2011 After our First Annual Progressive Ed Summit, Bobbi Macdonald and Mike Chalupa were asked by the Open Society Institute to write a blog:
News From City Neighbors Charter School
At our founding school, (City Neighbors Charter School), as part of our middle schooler's project study on the Civil
Rights Movement in Baltimore, our students visited the site of the former Read's Drugstore - the site of the first successful sit-in (5
years before the famous Greensboro sit-ins). The site, as many of you know, is slated to be torn down for re-development. Middle school
students, led by Mr. French, are using the debate over Read's Drugstore as the lens with which to explore the history of the Civil
Rights movement here in Baltimore beyond.
On February 12, 2011, our students (joined by parents, teachers, and community members) gathered to learn more about the rich and deep history of that building and the surrounding buildings and to express their concern and opposition to the tearing down of that historical site.
This event, and our participation, was documented in various media outlets. Here are some links:
FOX
http://www.foxbaltimore.com/
Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
and http://www.baltimoresun.com/
WJZ
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/
WBAL
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/
In addition to this trip, students attended a Symposium on Read's
Drugstore last Wednesday night at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, are
interviewing and hearing from men and women who participated in the
Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore, are using primary and secondary
sources to research the era, and more.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/