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Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove is a public high school in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The school is part of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS).

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Once considered low performing, Benjamin Franklin High School is now a top choice high school. A network of 75 partners customizes responses to the needs presented by the school's students and families. Students posted 17,000 service learning hours, 60 families were prevented from becoming homeless, and students are calling friends who dropped out and urging them to return.

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Discharged in 1945, his decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Three Oak Leaf Clusters. After the war, he worked as a reporter for Dun & Bradstreet and taught history at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in Brooklyn.

Other recommendations presented last night include transitioning Benjamin Franklin Middle to become a high school. The school would not admit a new sixth-grade class, and current eighth-graders could stay on for ninth grade.

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High schools would open in Brooklyn and Cherry Hill under a proposal that is supported by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke and is under study by city school officials. The idea, proposed more than a year ago, would expand to eighth grade the elementary schools in the two South Baltimore communities. Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Brooklyn and Arnett J. Brown Jr. Middle School in Cherry Hill then would become high schools.

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Just last year, a study found the Curtis Bay and Brooklyn neighborhoods to have the highest toxic air pollution in the state of Maryland.

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Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove would undergo an internal turnaround that includes implementing new career-preparation programs. It has seen declines in both its High School Assessment pass rates as well as its enrollment numbers, school officials said. The school, which recently transitioned to a high school, has struggled to serve its new population.

"We are trying to overcome a major hurdle of just [student] lifestyle," Arthur Fitzhugh, of Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove, told board members. "We can do it" with this process. This year, Alonso proposed to close the Institute of Business and Entrepreneurship High School in 2012. Patterson High School, Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove and Moravia Park Elementary/Middle School would undergo internal overhauls.

Under federal law, the state must require schools to take actions that will improve performance when schools' test scores are in the lowest 5 percent in the state. Some members of the state school board had suggested more drastic measures than have been taken before. For instance, they could recommend the troubled schools be turned into charters or placed in separate school districts that require more significant changes than have been tried over the years. The state legislature reacted swiftly to those suggestions and passed a law during the legislative session this year that forbids such action by the state. The schools are Academy for College and Career Exploration, Arundel Elementary/Middle, Augusta Fells Savage Institution of Visual Arts, Benjamin Franklin High, Booker T. Washington Middle, Brehms Lane Public Charter, Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary, Frederick Douglass High, Frederick Elementary, Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology, Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy, Gilmor Elementary, Harford Heights Elementary, Harlem Park Elementary/Middle, Hazelwood Elementary/Middle, James McHenry Elementary/Middle, Knowledge and Success Academy, Mary E. Rodman Elementary, New Era Academy and Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary.

United Way Family Center The day care at Benjamin Franklin has room for 18 children ages 6 weeks to 4 years old. All of the seniors enrolled in the program since it started in 2014 have finished high school. The turnaround team created a community center at the high school that opened in June 2014, a few months before the day care center. The community center, working with 75 community partners, provides mental health services, workforce development and job placement, a food bank, GED courses, prom dresses and help with transportation. The center has an operating budget of $485,000, and receives some administrative support from the high school. It receives funding from the United Way, the state Department of Education and other sources. Day care helps teen parents build a future - In-school program ensures girls graduate, learn to raise their babies

Baltimore City Public Schools' $130 million budget shortfall is forcing the roughly 180 principals district-wide to plan on doing without. Under the cuts, Benjamin Franklin High School would lose more than $900,000 and 11 teachers.

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Mary L. Booker From 1998 to 2000, she was principal of Benjamin Franklin Junior High School.

Curtis Bay is a food desert, meaning its residents don't have easy access to fresh, healthy and affordable food, Reed said. To ameliorate the situation, students from Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove run "Tri-Veggie," a tricycle carrying fruits and vegetables grown at Filbert Street Garden, to places throughout Curtis Bay.

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Greg Sawtell of United Workers, a group that worked with project opponents, said Wednesday's vote was a significant win for the community, particularly students at Benjamin Franklin High School and Curtis Bay Elementary School. "This shows that when communities organize, our voices can be heard," he said.