‘It’s broken’ | Baltimore teacher running for mayor campaigns to fix school system

Wendy Bozel recently sat down with Project Baltimore and revealed her plan to save the city, by first saving the school system (WBFF)

“It’s very difficult when you have kids that are special needs,” Bozel said. “So, I brought in fans for their desks. I tried to do anything I could to make it a little more bearable for them.”

Today, Bozel teaches Home and Hospital, which is a program for students who cannot attend school due to medical conditions.

“I got them when they’re to a point where they’ve been put together by Shock Trauma or Hopkins,” said Bozel.

But it’s the reason why Bozel’s students can’t attend school that convinced her to run for mayor.

“After the third student that I was teaching was shot and paralyzed, I realized I had to do more than just teach students in Baltimore City, that I needed to make them safe and change the school system.”

Bozel says three students became six, and all of them were injured in gun violence.

“If you look at the people that are in our prisons right now, most of them don’t have a high school education. And so, what other choice do you have? It’s crime. So, if you want to stop crime, you have to change your school system,” Bozel told Project Baltimore.

Which is why Bozel says her main platform as mayor would be fixing Baltimore City Public Schools.

“It’s broken, and we need to change,” she said.

Bozel sees two main problems within Baltimore City Schools she believes must be immediately corrected. The first is that the district must “centralize school funding.”

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