Promote increased State funding to strengthen Maryland Meals for Achievement and After School programming
There are 390,000 of public school children are enrolled in the free and reduced-price meal program. Children who eat school breakfast increase their math and reading scores as well as improve their speed and memory in cognitive tests, and perform better...
Strengthen family economic sufficiency by promoting the passage of the Paid Sick and Safe Leave
More than 700,000 workers in Maryland do not have the right to earned paid sick leave. Parents without paid sick days are more than twice as likely than parents with paid sick days to send a sick child to school or...
Monitor the implementation of the graduated response model
There is strong evidence that the major driver of system involved youth being pushed further into the “deep end” – that is, out-of-home placement – is an overly punitive response to technical violations of probation. A technical violation of...
Work to end juvenile life without parole in Maryland
Juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) is an excessive penalty that locks away children and gives up on them for good. Short of execution, it is the most severe penalty that exists. There is a nationwide movement to end JLWOP...
Work with coalition partners to reform the Juvenile Services Education program
The Juvenile Services Education program is operated by the state’s Department of Education within juvenile detention and committed placement facilities. It is plagued with a number of problems, such as inadequate or outdated educational materials, poorly designed and implemented...