Baltimore City Public School System
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The Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) is one of the most historic public school district in the United States. Prayer in U.S. public schools was banned as the result of a suit filed by the parent of a Baltimore City school student and racial integration came to a Baltimore City public high school two years before Brown v Board of Education. The BCPSS is home to the oldest all girls public high school in the country and to the third oldest high school overall. It serves the youth of city of Baltimore (in distinction to the county of Baltimore).
The general school law of 1826 empowered the mayor and City Council of Baltimore to establish a separate system of public or primary school in the city. It was not until March 1828, however, that an ordinance was passed creating a Board of Commissioners of Public Schools invested with power to establish and regulate a system of free public schools for the City of Baltimore. The Board of School Commissioners was elected annually by...
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- Baltimore City College
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
- Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts
- Digital Harbor High School
- General Wolfe Elementary School
- Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School
- Carver Vocational Technical High School
- Coppin Academy High School
- Francis M. Wood Alternative High School
- Reginald F. Lewis High School
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