Baltimore City students created their own Maryland “Freedom” Board of Education in frustration over a state board of education that, they say, refuses to comply with a decade-old court decision calling for greater funding for city schools.

“This is about civil rights ? if you don?t have the same adequate public education in the city that you have out in the counties ? that?s inequality right there, ” said Michelle Shropshire, 20, a Baltimore Polytechnic Institute graduate who is attending the College of Notre Dame.

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