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Through the Reach Together Tutoring Program led by @UMBC, graduate and undergraduate students have provided 1,400 City Schools students with twice-weekly math tutoring. With promising results, the program is scaling up:

Baltimore City should establish a more robust system to help with employer outreach, participant recruitment, career prep, and retention services. Learn how else the city can support expanding apprenticeships:

The Blueprint has set ambitious goals for apprenticeships in Maryland to help students graduate career ready. Our latest report explores ways that policy makers can support expansion:

Apprenticeship opportunities remain concentrated in the building trades, though they are beginning to reach into new sectors. How can we encourage this expansion?

Participants in apprenticeship programs remain disproportionately white and male. Maryland and Baltimore City would do well to encourage more diverse participation. Read to learn more:

Apprenticeships can be a great investment! According to the U.S. Department of Labor, for every dollar spent on apprenticeship, employers get an average of $1.47 back in increased productivity, reduced waste, and greater front-line innovation. Learn more:

Apprenticeship can help address the needs of workers and students for pathways to quality jobs and respond to business demand for talent in hard-to-fill occupations. How can Maryland and Baltimore expand apprenticeships? Read to learn more:

The Food Project @UEmpowerofMD provides transitional employment to youth and young adults, as well as free, healthy meals to residents of Carrolton Ridge. Read more:

Friendly Loving Opportunities (@flogiving) helps returning citizens by employing them to clean and repair donated furniture. The furniture is then provided to families in need. ❤

Research has shown that providing teenagers with early work experience can positively affect their employment and earnings later in life. Learn more about how Lydia’s House and @GrowHomeInc1 are providing positive work experiences to young people:

The 2013 STRIDE Act was passed to improve the safety of our natural gas infrastructure, but 9 years of data show there is no evidence safety has improved. Our report from 2023 explores why it’s time to reconsider STRIDE:

“This is a program that a lot of women hope for. I was so glad to get in because I needed a stable place to go when I was released,” said one resident of @MarianHouseMD. Learn more about how they support women’s economic independence and wellbeing:

Teens needs more sleep than they are getting. But school start times are trending earlier. @baltimoresun talks to the author of our latest report to understand all the benefits of later start times.

RT @BaltSunBrk: Baltimore City students need later start times | STAFF COMMENTARY

RT @StartSchoolL8r: In a new report, @abellfoundation says students with earlier school start times have more "absences, tardies, disciplin…

In collaboration with communities, @BmoreGreenSpace has helped protect 19 green spaces over 62+ acres and 93 lots across the city, including 2 forests, 2 farms, and 1 urban wildlife refuge. Learn more:

With extra curriculars, jobs, homework, and social activities pushing on one end and early school start time on the other, teens are not getting enough sleep. Later school start times can help. Read to learn more:

RT @StartSchoolL8r: "Students living in urban communities like Baltimore, who disproportionately experience poverty, housing instability, a…

73% of City Schools students rely on public transit to get to school. The average morning commute for a high schooler is 51 minutes. No wonder our teens aren’t getting enough sleep. Read to learn how we can help:

After Minneapolis delayed school start times, researchers documented better attendance rates, fewer tardies, less falling asleep in class, and improved mood. Baltimore students could benefit from a similar policy shift. Learn more: