Past Grants

The Johns Hopkins University/Center for Social Organization of Schools

To update “New Teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools, 1999-2004,” with 2004-2005 data that provides an assessment of each newly hired teacher and will help determine retention rates and percentages of teachers becoming certified.

Baltimore City Public School System/Western High School

Toward the purchase of basic supplies for the art, drama, dance, and music programs.

Learning, Inc.

For continued support of The Learning Cooperative, a dropout recovery/prevention program for at-risk Baltimore City middle school students from families living with drug/alcohol problems, physical or emotional abuse, and poverty. The 30-hour-per-week program offers academic course work, job-skills training, and conflict-resolution workshops.

Baltimore Kids Chess League, Inc.

For expenses related to implementation of the Baltimore City Public School Chess Education Project, an after-school program for elementary school students. The goal of the project is to increase the number of after-school chess clubs in elementary schools by providing education materials and instructors to work with teacher-coaches, sponsoring chess activities, and encouraging children to attend competitive regional and national chess tournaments.

Partnership For Learning

For the staffing of an education coordinator and the purchase of education materials for an initiative designed to reduce recidivism and increase academic outcomes of first-time juvenile offenders with learning difficulties. The partnership’s program provides literacy tutoring, mentoring and motivational services. The Piney Woods School, 90,690 Piney Woods, MS. To provide scholarships at a boarding school in Mississippi for selected, underachieving at-risk male students from Baltimore City for the 2004-2005 school year. The grant includes funding for a counselor to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behavior, and academic achievement.