Baltimore City Public Schools

Vision: Accelerating the academic achievement of all students, in partnership with the entire community to ensure that students have the attitudes, skills, and proficiencies needed to succeed in college and in the 21st century global workforce.

Mission: To accelerate student progress through effective implementation of the Master Plan, focusing on quality instruction, managing systems efficiently, and sustaining a culture of excellence.

Careers: Are you interested in a career in teaching or in the field of education? Are you interested in working in a professional environment, in a city that Money Magazine rated as the number one place to live for art and culture? Then come to Baltimore and work for Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools). The harbor city of Baltimore is home to a school system of over 90,000 students and 12,000 teachers and staff. City Schools is on the cutting edge of educational innovation,implementing such programs as a technology-based high school, and smaller, learning-community high schools;expansion of K-5 schools into K-8 schools; implementation of research-based reading instruction that has led to above- national- average scores for the school system’s first graders, and many other programs that have made Baltimore a model of urban educational reform.