History
In 1979, the President of the School Board authored a charter creating the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA). In the form of a resolution of the school board, this charter followed many years of effort to create an arts high school, including a 1978 recommendation of the special Task Force appointed by Mayor William Donald Schaefer. The BSA was created as part of the Baltimore school system, however the charter provided the BSA with the structure and the authority to design and implement policies and programs necessary to be successful in its mission as a pre-professional arts high school. The charter stated "that it differ from other Baltimore city high schools by training students with potential for careers in the performing and visual arts."
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