Baltimore City Public Schools board meeting, Sep 15, 2026
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- Robert SalleyBoard Chair
What happened
What happened at this meeting
Baltimore City school board approves consent agenda including capital and maintenance plans 46:59
- Board chair Robert Salley announced that the consent agenda, which included the capital and maintenance plans, passed. 46:59
- A district staff member presented the capital improvement program, which lists 13 projects totaling about $88 million, and Mujahid Muhammad asked what portion of unfunded capital requirements depends on funding streams that cannot be assumed to recur. 50:40
- The board also heard presentations on end-of-year stakeholder survey results and a progress update on communication with multilingual families. 1:23:02
Item by item (9)
- Opening remarks and recognitions 0:00
- Public comment 5:17
- A speaker at public comment asked for more individual teacher planning time, moving from 45 minutes to 65 minutes, and suggested the district adopt about 10 or fewer standardized school schedules. 6:04
- A speaker at public comment asked the board for enforceable limits on devices, a temporary AI moratorium, a digital technology and AI committee and a technology audit. 21:40
- A principal asked the board to invest in qualified interpreters, bilingual front office staff and a single point of entry for language services, and a speaker at public comment asked the board to keep written and recorded public comments under policy BEGG. 26:14
- CEO report 34:57
- The CEO said the district offered 12,661 summer learning seats across 56 programs, and students earned 4,895 high school credits. 34:57
- The CEO said the year-to-date attendance rate at the end of August was 91%, up from 90% last year. 37:45
- The CEO said 7 high schools will take part in the inaugural cohort of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award. 44:04
- Capital improvement program presentation 46:59
- The chief operating officer said the plan includes 13 projects totaling about $88 million and asked the board to approve a proposed $51 million state request and a $30 million city request. 49:41
- Mujahid Muhammad asked what portion of unfunded capital needs depends on funding streams that may not recur, and Robert Salley asked how city funding compares with other jurisdictions. 56:36
- A staff member said Baltimore County receives over $150 million from its county for capital projects, and another staff member said the district's backlog is probably pushing close to $1 billion. 59:34
- Comprehensive maintenance plan presentation 1:08:45
- A staff member said the maintenance budget is $53 million across 144 buildings, while the industry indicates about $234 million is needed. 1:10:35
- Ashiah Parker asked how a school's maintenance need gets on the district's list and how work is prioritized. 1:18:20
- The staff member said the district uses data on work orders, facility conditions and system age and prioritizes health and safety projects. 1:18:51
- Consent agenda vote 1:20:53
- The consent agenda included policy JLF on second reader, the capital improvement program, the comprehensive maintenance plan, supplemental appropriations, budget amendments and several procurements. 47:27
- The presiding officer said a commissioner had been left off the consent agenda vote record and said the board executive would note it for the record. 2:21:23
- Robert Salley announced that the motion passed. 1:22:00
- Stakeholder survey results 1:22:00
- Staff reported that 88% of families said their school was mostly or extremely welcoming and that 92% of school leaders reported a collaborative culture, compared with 80% the prior year. 1:24:08
- Amber Scott Woodruff asked about the timeliness of end-of-year data, response rates and demographic data, and Larry Simmons Jr. asked why some grades were excluded from the student survey. 1:41:17
- A staff member said the state decides which grades take the survey, and another staff member said it covers grades 5 through 11. 1:46:32
- Multilingual communications progress update 2:05:15
- A staff member said almost 1 out of 5 families speak a language other than English and 96% of schools serve multilingual families. 2:07:24
- The staff member outlined a strategic plan with 5 key areas and said the district proposes to consolidate language access duties potentially into one office in FY28. 2:14:13
- Kwame’ Jamal Kenyatta-Bey asked where the heavy lift is, and the staff member said the biggest roadblock is school communities. 2:17:18
- Upcoming meetings and adjournment 2:21:23
- The presiding officer said new standing committees would begin this month, with an Accountability Committee meeting on Thursday, September 24th, and Operations, Finance, and Facilities Committee and Policy Committee meetings on Tuesday, September 29th. 2:21:46
- The next executive board meeting was announced for October 6th, followed by the public board meeting at 6 PM. 2:23:33
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