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Abell Reports are commissioned reports by subject matter experts, academics, and investigative journalists that provide studies of selected issues on the public agenda.
These projects – undertaken with grant funding by academics and nonprofit research and advocacy organizations – advance learning on issues key to Baltimore City.
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In 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a consent decree for the Baltimore Police Department, mandating wide-ranging reforms. In a pair of companion reports, researchers from the University of Maryland examine the current state of community-police relations and how certain initiatives could help to improve them.
Eviction prevention programs, which cover up to three months of past-due rent, are a cost-effective way to stabilize families, pay landlords, and reduce costs to the state. This report examines two different scenarios that would prevent disruptive displacements.
Ten years ago, Maryland’s legislature passed a bill to expedite utilities’ replacement of their natural gas pipes in the name of safety. Since then, Maryland has adopted ambitious climate goals that will require the near elimination of natural gas use in homes by 2045. Yet the state continues to allow utilities to invest billions in replacing pipes, which consumers will have to pay for — with a profit for the utilities — for decades to come.
A report sponsored by The Abell Foundation and prepared by the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment.
This annual report provides an overview of the initiatives and themes that emerged in 2008, and spotlights the inspiring people and programs that led this important work in Baltimore.
For providing affordable housing to the McCulloughs of the world and their “work and prayer” formula that makes it all happen.
In the study: Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, MedStar. “Change is Needed: This is the moment…to promote reform.”
Examining alignment among Maryland’s voluntary state curriculum for high school mathematics, the algebra I high school assessment, and the Accuplacer college placement tests.
Header photo courtesy of Venture for America.
