Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Stephanie will work with stakeholders from all levels of government to get our children the resources they need. In Annapolis, it is critical that we have a delegation that inspires faith in Baltimore City's efforts to update our school infrastructure, innovate instruction and advance opportunity for all children.

Stephanie supports a school funding model that takes racial equity into the evaluation criteria.

Maryland's State Constitution requires the state adequately fund all public schools. Baltimore City advocates have fought for decades for fair funding for our City's children. Our children have yet to feel the fullness of this constitutional mandate.

Equitable Education Funding

Since Fall 2016, the Kirwan Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education has convened a series of meetings. The Commission is preparing legislative recommendations based on the 9 Blocks for a World Class Education System:

Provide strong supports for children and their families before students arrive at school
Provide more resources for at-risk students than for others
Develop world-class, highly coherent instructional systems
Create clear gateways for students through the system, set to global standards, with no dead ends
Assure an abundant supply of highly qualified teachers
Redesign schools to be places in which teachers will be treated as professionals, with incentives and support to continuously improve their professional practice and the performance of their students
Create an effective system of career and technical education and training
Create a leadership development system that develops leaders at all levels to manage such systems effectively
Institute a governance system that has the authority and legitimacy to develop coherent, powerful policies and is capable of implementing them at scale.
Stephanie supports:

a finalized funding formula that uses an equity lens to ensure high need systems like Baltimore City are properly funded.

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