Baltimore City Public Schools have struggled for years to access necessary funds to support both students and teachers. Over 20 years ago, the Baltimore City Circuit Court ruled in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education that, as stated by the Maryland constitution, all children must receive an adequate education (McClellan, Quereshi, 2020). In other words, “every student is entitled to the resources that will allow them to meet contemporary educational standards, regardless of zip code” (McClellan, Quereshi, 2020). Despite this, Maryland continued to ignore this rule in regards to the Baltimore City Public School system. In response, Maryland created the Thornton Commission and Kirwan Commission to fight the “adequacy gap” (McClellan, Quereshi, 2020). However, as of 2020, Maryland has evaded its responsibility to Baltimore students. Baltimore Teachers Union writes that “The difference between what the state should have been funding BCPSS, and how much they actually spent in 2017 (the last time the Department of Legislative Services studied the “Adequacy Gap”) was $342 million [per year]!” (Gaber, 2020).  It is clear that Maryland has consistently evaded the legal definition of adequate funding. For too long, legislation and policy has failed to account for the “segregation and structural inequality that has led to the persistent and alarming racial disparities between Baltimore schools – where black students compose approximately 80% of the student population – and other districts in the state” (McClellan, Quereshi, 2020). Policy has not provided the support to reverse years of segregation and underfunding, and educators have instead turned to grassroots and community organizing in order to get the support they need.