Better move to Baltimore and enroil the kidz in the publk skoolz NOW!
Right?
Posted on 09/21/2023 7:55:35 AM PDT by george76
BALTIMORE — The latest round of state test results is raising alarm in Baltimore City Schools. Project Baltimore found that 40% of Baltimore City high schools, where the state exam was given, did not have any students score proficient in math. Not one student.
“This is educational homicide,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of People Empowered by the Struggle, a Baltimore-based nonprofit.
In 2021, the group held rallies calling on Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises to resign over low test scores, falling graduation rates, and a lack of transparency. Now, after seeing what Project Baltimore discovered, Rodriguez is renewing those calls.
“There is no excuse,” he said. “We have a system that's just running rogue, and it starts at the top.”
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unredacted state test results for every school in Baltimore City through a source within the school system, and the results are hard to believe.
Students took the tests in the spring of 2023, just a few months ago. Project Baltimore found 13 Baltimore City high schools where not one student who took the state math test scored proficient in math. Not one student.
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Students took the tests in the spring of 2023, just a few months ago. Project Baltimore found 13 Baltimore City high schools where not one student who took the state math test scored proficient in math. Not one student.
Of the 32 high schools remaining, if 13 had zero students test proficient, that means 40% of Baltimore City high schools could not produce a single student doing math a grade level.
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But that’s not the only alarming finding we made. In those 13 high schools, 1,736 students took the test, and 1,295 students, or 74.5%, scored a one out of four. One is the lowest level, meaning those students were not even close to proficient.
Last school year, Baltimore City Schools received $1.6 billion from taxpayers, the most ever. The district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government. And still, not a single student tested at 13 City high schools scored proficient on the state math test.
“So, it's not a funding issue. We're getting plenty of funding,” said Rodriguez.“I don't think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue.”
Six years ago, in 2017, Project Baltimore produced a similar report, where we analyzed state test scores and found 13 City schools had zero students proficient in math. Many of the schools from 2017 are also on the 2023 list,
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“We're still dealing with these same issues year after year,” said Rodriguez. “It's just scary to me and alarming to me because we know that what's happening now, you know, it's just opening up the floodgates to the school-to-prison pipeline.”
City Schools will not do an interview to discuss these results
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“I'm beyond angry,” said Rodriguez. “This is why we've been calling for the resignation of the school CEO.”
It’s important to note that Project Baltimore is only able to report these test scores to the public because a source gave them to us.
When the state officially releases them later this month, the results will likely be heavily redacted, making it more difficult for parents to see how many schools are performing.
Earlier this year, the Maryland State Department of Education began further redacting state test scores after Project Baltimore reported on last year’s poor outcomes.
With State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury no longer seeking another term, Project Baltimore reached out to the State School Board, asking if it will reverse course and make more information available to the public. We were told the board has no comment.
These are the clowns that want to “save da enviomen” and make sure their girlfriends can get abortions. LOL!
no comment on the occupants of the schools, the city speaks for itself as the explanation.
Honestly I am impressed, I would have expected all of the Balt Schools to have failed this spectacularly.
The elites have decided that it’s easier to rule stupid people so that’s what they’re making in the public schools.
I wonder how they would score in basic biology.
When taught 1 + 1 = 57 genders, what can you expect?
bttt
They just want them smart enough to vote Democrat.
And every last one of them will get a Diploma saying they successfully graduated High School because they can all put on a condom in the dark.
So what?, math is racist.
Doing well in school is racist.
Having parents that care is racist.
Having teachers that care is racist.
Now shut up, and hand over your money, racist....
A perfect score!
Test the teachers.
Yet another Democrat success story.
That doesn’t add up!
Fire the teachers and the parents.
Put the kids in a massive orphanage.
Use computer aided instruction to get their math skills up at the pace of each student.
Hire security guards to make sure the students do the work and don’t get in fights and to keep contraband out of the orphanage.
I’ll bet none of the light-skinned black professionals who live in Charm City send their kids to those schools.
This is the result of no discipline and social promotion based on race.
Over $2 billion for one city school system. Yet the educcrats scream they don't get enough money. Clearly money is not the problem. But I would also like to know where all the money is going as it clearly does not go to teaching students.
Better move to Baltimore and enroil the kidz in the publk skoolz NOW!
Right?
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