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6 Baltimore schools, no students proficient in state tests
WBFF FOX 45 ^ | May 17, 2017 | Chris Papst

Posted on 05/30/2017 6:56:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BALTIMORE (WBFF) -- A Project Baltimore investigation has found five Baltimore City high schools and one middle school do not have a single student proficient in the state tested subjects of math and English.

We sat down with a teen who attends one of those schools and has overcome incredible challenges to find success.

Navon Warren grew up in West Baltimore. He was three months old when his father was shot to death. Before his 18th birthday, he would lose two uncles and a classmate, all gunned down on the streets of Baltimore.

“I’ve lost a lot of people, so I’m used to it. It hurts,” Warren said. “I just chose not to show it. I just keep it in. You just have to live on and keep going on every day. You have to do it somehow.”

Despite his tremendous loss, Warren is set to graduate this year from Frederick Douglass High School. It’s a school where only half the students graduate and just a few dozen will go to college. Last year, not one student scored proficient in any state testing.

“That’s absurd to me. That’s absurd to me,” says Warren’s mother Janel Nelson. “That’s your teachers report card, ultimately.”

Project Baltimore found Frederick Douglass is not alone. Four other city high schools and one middle school also have zero students proficient.

The schools are:


High school students are tested by the state in math and English. Their scores place them in one of five categories – a four or five is considered proficient and one through three are not. At Frederick Douglass, 185 students took the state math test last year and 89 percent fell into the lowest level. Just one student approached expectations and scored a three.

Despite the challenges at his school, Warren found a path to higher education. He’s the reigning Baltimore City 50 and 100 freestyle champion who competed at the junior Olympics, finishing in fourth place. In the fall, he will leave the streets of Baltimore and head to Bethany College in West Virginia, where he will swim.

“It’s exciting for him to get out of the city and exciting for him to start a new chapter in his life,” says Nelson.

Warren told FOX45, he believes zero students are proficient at Frederick Douglass, because the state tests are more advanced than what the students are learning in class.

Editor’s Note: We spoke with the executive director of teaching and learning for Baltimore City Schools about this data. She told us some of those students might be considered proficient, even though they did not score a four or five on the state tests. Baltimore City Schools later told us that was an error in statement.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: arth; baltimore; baltimoreschools; bluezones; education; english; hsproficiencytests; maryland; math; miserablefailure; nea; proficiencytests; schools; urban
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To: Mears

Colleges that need seven foot ball bouncers for their varsity team and 350 pound door stoppers for their offensive lines.


81 posted on 05/31/2017 5:45:24 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

82 posted on 05/31/2017 5:46:21 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: metmom

Drivel..... inappropriate drivel

The first requirement for home school is a teacher and guess what ..... a home. These are black kids that have neither. It’s what they want


83 posted on 05/31/2017 5:49:40 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

The picture portrays a proficiency in looking retarded. I figure total points of about 260. Less if their grandmothers had to put their hats on them.


84 posted on 05/31/2017 5:49:54 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

To be fair, there are about 175 schools in there.

Would have to look more to get break-down by “level”, and conversely how the other schools did. Maybe they found just 1 person each proficient?


85 posted on 05/31/2017 5:54:26 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

btt


86 posted on 05/31/2017 5:59:56 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Community College.

Seriously. Much as I love it (mine was terrific for higher learning), it truly is depressing how many remedial-type classes are offered and taken. I tutor there now and most of my students are for “intermediate” algebra; college’ll offer some 30 classes per semester in that 1 non-credit subject alone.


87 posted on 05/31/2017 6:00:09 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Daffynition

At least s/he spelled the states’ names right!


88 posted on 05/31/2017 6:10:44 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Oh, I agree.


89 posted on 05/31/2017 6:16:31 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Mears
The trend is not your friend. Unfortunately, your school district is like the local church who likes their pastor and his teachings, although they conflict with the national church.

The trend is not your friend.

90 posted on 05/31/2017 6:19:07 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: bert

Awesome show.


91 posted on 05/31/2017 6:35:14 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“...not have a single student proficient in the state tested subjects of math and English.”

Two skills they won’t need in Baltimore.


92 posted on 05/31/2017 6:36:46 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: bert

Best show ever——— David Simon’s stuff is terrific.

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93 posted on 05/31/2017 6:42:58 AM PDT by Mears ("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
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To: PLMerite; Mears

The interesting fact about the Wire is that it was prescient

By describing the perceived reality the Wire was precisely describing the future.


94 posted on 05/31/2017 7:43:51 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Them Republicans. They gonna keep y'all in chains!" - Joe Biden
95 posted on 05/31/2017 7:51:22 AM PDT by Gritty (Islam is king on a field of corpses - Mark Steyn)
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To: Gritty
"Them Republicans. They gonna keep y'all in chains!" - Joe Biden

Such a disgusting statement--and Biden got a complete pass on it.

From the GOP no less.

96 posted on 05/31/2017 7:52:49 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Liberalism failures. Color me shocked....


97 posted on 05/31/2017 7:54:35 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just the sort of town where President Obama would intervene in support of a Mayor & Prosecutor, who told the Police to stand down and let the youth riot without fear of consequences.


98 posted on 05/31/2017 7:59:33 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: bert

I don’t know how prescient it really was, Baltimordor has always been way ahead in the downward spiral.


99 posted on 05/31/2017 8:09:14 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

But how dare we utter what Black people need (which is basically the same as what we all need — liberty and morality).


100 posted on 05/31/2017 11:03:56 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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