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Former school board member Anirban Basu said, “What do we do? Do we kick you out of high school? Do we not let you graduate? Do we doom you to a life of economic failure because you don't have that very basic economic or educational credential? There's no win here.”
"Gray and Ford told Fox45 News, when their children were failing, they asked City Schools to hold them back to give them more time to learn the material. Instead, their children were moved along to the next grade."
"Children are being pushed through the City school system without getting the education they need.
'It’s killing the lives of thousands of black kids,' @Carl2411Carl, a former Baltimore City councilmember and charter school operator, told Project Baltimore in April 2021."
I should clarify, that median GPA is just for one high school in Baltimore, not the entire district.
Anyway, would be great if reporters looked into where all the $ is going.
‘Funding Our Own Demise’: Baltimore District Sued for Failing to Educate Students, Misusing Taxpayer Dollars
via @MikenzieFrost
https://t.co/0KVaTNJGNS
"Boston Public Schools, already struggling to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of its students, could lose dozens of educators of color when the city’s new employee vaccine mandate takes effect Monday, according to the Boston Teachers Union."
"Maryland's Montgomery County became the latest Democrat-run jurisdiction to reverse its decision to remove police officers from schools after it suffered the first school shooting in the county's history last week, in which a 15-year-old boy was shot last Friday by a classmate."
"Videos from inside City Schools show students fighting & teachers being attacked. Project Baltimore has heard from parents who are worried the violence has gotten out of control and made it difficult for other students to learn."