Patterson Park Public Charter School, Inc. v. Baltimore Teachers Union

In 1996, in the wake of a growing national movement toward the development of public charter school programs, the Baltimore City Public School System launched the “New Schools Initiative,” a pilot program through which private groups were requested to submit requests-for-proposals to either establish new pubhcly-funded schools within Baltimore City or to assume control over existing public schools. “Report on the Final Evaluation of the City-State Partnership,” Presented to: The New Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and the Maryland State Department of Education 93 (December 3,…