Glenn Schatz

Infrastructure / Transportation Champion a yellow bus pilot program for the longest and most unreliable choice-school routes. A 2025 analysis found a full city bus network could cost as little as 5% of the district's operating budget – the district's own officials haven't seriously evaluated it. Infrastructure / Transportation Prioritization of life-safety repairs: fire suppression, water quality, structural integrity. Infrastructure / Transportation Address the after-school access gap: student transit passes have limited hours, which prevents participation in sports, clubs, and tutoring. Fix the pass window or fund alternative solutions. Education Streamline the nonprofit and university partnership process. Baltimore has extraordinary anchor institutions – Hopkins, Loyola, Morgan State, UMB, BCRP – whose after-school resources don't reach every neighborhood. I'll push to cut the bureaucratic friction that keeps those partnerships from scaling. Taxes / Budget Protect what exists first. The new middle school athletics program is fragile. A 2M budget at 50 per student is not a real commitment. I'll push to make it permanent and funded at a level that doesn't depend on volunteer coaches and overloaded principals. Infrastructure / Transportation Transparency on the 21st Century Schools surplus process: 26 buildings were committed for disposal; the public deserves to know where that stands. Infrastructure / Transportation Direct net savings and proceeds to student-facing needs (transportation, after-school, repairs). Infrastructure / Transportation Fix the transit pass gap. Students can't stay for sports, tutoring, or clubs if their MTA pass stops working at 4. I'll advocate for extended pass hours tied to school program schedules – this is a solvable coordination problem between BCPS and MTA. Infrastructure / Transportation Push for bell-time coordination with MTA so school start times are aligned with actual bus frequency. Some students are waking up before 6 a.m. For a 7:30 bell they still miss. Government Reform Make participation data public. We don't have a clear picture of which schools have robust after-school programming and which have nothing. A simple public dashboard by school is the first step to closing the gap. Government Reform Demand a rewrite of the MOU between BCPS and MTA to include student-specific on-time performance standards – right now, the MTA has no metrics it's required to hit for student riders.