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Ringleader Of The Hunger Strike Kids is Paid $120k A Year

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June 19, 3:32 PM

by Adam Meister, Baltimore Politics Examiner

Stephen Janis and Luke Broadwater of the Baltimore Examiner need to be applauded for this excellent piece of investigative journalism. Mayor Dixon and Jack Young also deserve shout outs for standing their ground and not giving this organization the money they were trying to guilt out of the Baltimore budget.

Here is what Luke and Stephen uncovered:
Safe & Sound’s 2006 tax records showed nearly $1 million in overhead costs including:

$437,000 to consultants
$341,000 for marketing
$156,031 for travel including trips to Seattle, Savannah, Ga., Chicago and Boston
$120,000 salary of the group’s executive director, Hathaway Ferebee.
Tax returns for 2007 are not available.

In theory the organization could use some money but they can not ask the tax payers for money until they get their financial act together and learn how to budget correctly. Would you want to give money to an organization that is supposedly helping kids learn when the leader is taking in $120k a year while (according to Wikipedia) the median income for a household in the city was $30,078, and the median income for a family was $35,438?
Topics: Jack Young , schools , Algebra Project , Sheila Dixon

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Protest The $1.2 billion A Year School Budget

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June 6, 10:22 AM

The Algebra Project kids sent out an email that I have posted below. They still want $3 million and they are having a press conference on Monday at noon at city hall. The protest should be at school headquarters on North Avenue not at city hall. ... Read More
Topics: schools , Algebra Project

The Hunger Strike Is Over For Now

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June 5, 12:30 AM

The kids at the Algebra Project said they were going to have a hunger strike if the Mayor did not give them $3 million to fund their Peer to Peer project. On Wednesday they suspended the hunger strike because Mayor Dixon agreed to meet with them. ... Read More
Topics: City Council , schools , Algebra Project , Sheila Dixon

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