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In the News
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
2013 Report
The State of Maryland Public Education 2013
There’s a story to tell about Maryland public schools that national rankings just don’t capture.
This year’s State of Maryland Public Education report was designed with you, the advocates, in mind. It presents everything you need to know about Maryland public schools--from student demographics to funding to the state’s achievement gaps--in a visual, reader-friendly format. It tells the story beneath the story.
The headline of that story remains stubbornly unchanged: Maryland has some of the largest gaps in the country between our haves and have-nots. Our low-income students lag more than 30 percentage points behind their affluent peers in both math and reading. The gap is even bigger for our black eighth-graders, who trail their white peers by 38 percentage points in math and 31 in reading. Even when taking our best students into account, less than half of our eighth-graders read on grade level.
These facts may be hard to stomach, but if we’re serious about giving every child access to a great school, we need everyone in Maryland talking about them.
The fight for great schools begins with the facts. But it continues with us.
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