Mayor Brandon Scott and the Board of Estimates today sold a former West Baltimore elementary school, appraised at $780,000, to a church-affiliated charter school for $1.
The 92,000-square-foot building is the home of the Empowerment Academy founded by Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, the former charismatic pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church, who had promised to elevate education in a low-income neighborhood.
Bryant left Baltimore in 2018 to become head of an Atlanta megachurch, but he remains resident agent of the church-formed company deeded the school, according to state tax records.
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