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Sun, 02/24/2013
Parent Talk Live
Parent Talk Live radio host Dr. Michael Robinson interviews MarylandCAN Executive Director as they discuss MarylandCAN's community engagement and its impact on parental engagement in education advocacy efforts.
Fri, 02/15/2013
The Launch Pad
Harry Washington, host of The Launch Pad cable television show, interviews Curtis Valentine about MarylandCAN's efforts to close the achievement gap in the state of Maryland.
Thu, 01/31/2013
WBAL 1090AM
Ten years after Maryland's charter school law was enacted, more than 200 student, parents and teachers from charter schools around the state were in Annapolis today to urge lawmakers to make changes to the charter school law.
The effort was organized by MarylandCAN, the Maryland Campaign for Achievement Now.
Sun, 01/13/2013
94.7 Fresh FM
MarylandCAN Executive Director Curtis Valentine interviewied about MarylandCAN's work, especially as it relates to our advocacy for changes in Maryland's charter school law.
Aired January 13, 2013, on "Fresh Perspectives" (94.7 Fresh FM) and streamed live at CBSDC.com.
Also aired January 15, 2013 on 1580 AM Gov.Biz Radio.
Sat, 12/22/2012
All News 99.1 WNEW
Check out these soundbites from an interview with Curtis Valentine featuring him as "Hometown Hero of the Week" and highlighting the work he does with MarylandCAN
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The MarylandCAN story.
In many ways, Maryland has good reason to be proud of its public schools. On the 2011 Nation’s Report Card, our fourth-graders ranked fifth in math and third in reading. Last year, our state won $250 million in the federal Race to the Top grant competition and $50 million in this year's Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge for innovative plans to make our education systems even better. When it comes to our public schools, it’s clear that we’re doing some things right.
But these successes don’t tell the whole story of Maryland’s public education system: scratch the surface and you’ll discover some of the largest achievement gaps in the country. Maryland ranks 38th out of 46 states for its achievement gap between Hispanic and white students in eighth-grade math, with our Hispanic eighth-graders more than three grade levels behind their white classmates in math. And nearly 80 percent of Maryland’s African-American eighth-grade students enter high school unable to read at grade level.
Before Maryland can rightfully claim its place as a national leader on education, we have to give all of our kids—not just a select few—a fair shot at the American Dream.
MarylandCAN was founded in Maryland to do what ConnCAN has done in Connecticut: speak up for the kids who aren’t benefiting from the historic success of our education system. For the past seven years, ConnCAN has harnessed the tools of modern issue campaigns to build a statewide reform movement capable of securing and sustaining fundamental education reforms. Reflecting on our results, Jon Schnur, founder and executive director of New Leaders for New Schools, stated, “every state in the country should have a ConnCAN.”
Heeding Schnur’s call, in 2009 ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer Marc Porter Magee began the process of launching a new nonprofit, 50CAN: The 50 State Campaign for Achievement Now, which recruits and supports local leaders who build citizen movements in their states to ensure that every child has access to a great public school. 50CAN has four state campaigns operating in Maryland, Minnesota, New York and Rhode Island.
MarylandCAN launched in January 2012.
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