Kirwan Commission Updates September 30, 2017 It is an ongoing commitment of ours to ensure that all schools and districts across Maryland have the adequate and equitable funding they need to educate all of Maryland’s children. In 2016, the...
Maryland has a tuition waiver (Education §15-106.1) for unaccompanied homeless youth and foster youth to attend Maryland’s public colleges and universities. This bill is simply a technical bill to fix 2 small issues. First, during the 2016 Legislative Session,...
Income Tax – Earned Income Tax Credit – Eligibility Awareness Campaign Pilot Program HB762 (EITC Outreach) allows DHR to engage in targeted outreach for those who might qualify for Maryland’s EITC. As you know, the Earned Income Tax Credit...
HB287/SB361: Hunger Free Schools Act: State lawmakers reauthorized and updated the Hunger Free Schools Act of 2015, which was set to expire this year, to preserve recent gains made. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a federally funded program...
LAST YEAR 2016 SINE DIE SUMMARY: Earned Sick Leave fails in Senate Finance Committee For the first time in four years, we passed earned sick days out of the House with a rock solid majority. We grew our campaign...
The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and the House Judiciary Committee recently held hearings on a bill to eliminate Juvenile Life Without Parole. ACY supports these bills in accordance with our opposition to extremely long prison sentences for persons convicted...
LEGISLATIVE ALERT: Tell the House Judiciary Committee to support HB471 and hold children accountable in an appropriate and fair way. Click here to send your letter. The Maryland Senate recently heard SB215, a bill to scale back the automatic charging of youth...
Juvenile life without parole (JWLOP) is a criminal sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, given to a person for acts done before that person reached 18 years of age. In other words, a child is sentenced...
In Maryland, if a child is arrested by a police officer for any of a certain set of offenses – commonly called the “excluded offenses” – that child is automatically charged as an adult. This means their case begins...
If a child is adjudicated delinquent – that is, found guilty (though the juvenile systems does not actually use the terms guilty or not guilty) – he or she may be placed on probation. Probation is an alternative to...