MARYLAND EDUCATION COALITION MISSION STATEMENT

 

The Maryland Education Coalition (MEC) advocates for adequate, equitable policies, funding, and transparent accountability statewide for the estimated 900,000 public school students in Maryland’s public schools, regardless of their academic, cultural, economic, geographic, racial, or other demographic status. We work to ensure that Maryland provides for all students “a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance” as defined in the Maryland Constitution and that all students are “taught to high, evidence-based academic standards that will prepare them to graduate college or career-ready. We believe this is also their civil right