Mayor Stephanie Rawlings - Blake, who did not attend the briefing, has said that she would devote $ 23 million in new funds to
schools construction to allow the
school system to
float as much as $ 300 million in
bonds.
Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its
construction funding plan on a groundbreaking
schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to
float the
bonds on behalf of the
school system.