Posted on 04/19/2025 2:55:50 PM PDT by Twotone
Baltimore’s public school district is going on a hiring spree while student enrollment plummets and test scores remain in the basement.
Baltimore City Public Schools inflated its number of employees by nearly 19% over the six years between 2018 and last year, according to Maryland State Department of Education data analyzed by Fox 45’s Project Baltimore, an investigative initiative on the city’s floundering schools.
The school district hired 1,714 more staffers while the number of students plummeted by 4,781 or 6%, the data show.
It wasn’t mostly teachers the district hired, either.
Over those six years, the district hired 992 more teachers, about a 15% increase, but it also hired 721 non-teaching staff such as administrators, a 28% increase, the analysis found.
Last school year, the Baltimore City school district had 10,874 employees for 75,811 students, about 6.9 students per staffer.
“This pattern reveals that the government school system has become more of a jobs program for adults than an education initiative for kids,” school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis told The Daily Wire.
DeAngelis noted that 40% of Baltimore high schools had zero students score proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Meanwhile, Baltimore’s public school superintendent makes $479,672 a year, more than the president of the United States, DeAngelis pointed out.
“These failure factories don’t give a damn about the kids,” DeAngelis said. “These overpaid administrators are leeches that extract funding away from the classroom and the kids they’re supposed to serve. Baltimore needs real accountability from the bottom-up with school choice. Families must be able to vote with their feet to schools that work best for their kids. Only then will the school system cater to the needs of children and their families as opposed to the other way around.”
School choice critics often complain that failing inner city public schools are under-funded and simply need more resources to help low-income children thrive academically.
However, Baltimore spends far more per pupil than other large city school districts whose students perform better.
Baltimore City spends $18,272 tax dollars per student, according to last year’s census, Fox 45 reported.
Meanwhile, Albuquerque, New Mexico’s, school district spends $12,964 per pupil and the Austin, Texas, district spends $12,492. Both outperform Baltimore students in every category, such as 4th and 8th grade math and reading, on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the “Nation’s Report Card.”
“City Schools has made targeted investments in hiring qualified staff — from classroom teachers and counselors to literacy coaches and early childhood educators,” the district said in a statement. “We know that students thrive when they are supported by caring adults, and when schools are fully staffed and resourced. There is more work to do, but make no mistake — progress is happening, and our students deserve recognition for it.”
Some schools have zero students testing at the proficiency level?
We’re not just saying some schools test results are deficient, but that some schools have no students at all who are testing at the proper level?
So many questions and so little time. It does make you wonder what the heck is going on in these schools. Are teachers not teaching, is there no parental support for teachers and of the education process with these kids? Are these black kids, for whom in ghetto culture , doing well in school is acting white ?
While I can believe there are schools where kids are not testing well, it’s hard to believe some schools have zero students who are at grade level.
Here in Texas it was revealed teachers had hired others to take their teacher exams
Teacher’s protest signs have misspelled words, almost all of them
Dallas and Houston are the worst.
“Baltimore City spends $18,272 tax dollars per student”
FSU out of state tuition is about that.
One day we will realize that “Public” anything; e.g. when other people foot the bill, is socialism, and will utterly fail. FDR sold a new form of government to weak, immoral people looking for the easy way out. Eliminate ALL public education and let parents foot the bill themselves and you will see $3,000 per student instead of $30,000, and lo and behold they will read and write and do algebra and trig with no problems.
We know Baltimore City spent the money, Dimwits always spend the money, what we want to know is why none of it was spent on education?
“...“This pattern reveals that the government school system has become more of a jobs program for adults...”
Teacher illiteracy is not a recent phenomenon.
The reason that Baltimore schools teach “ebonics ” is so that the students can understand the employees.
Dem party-Lawfare, welfare, and workfare.
More DEI administrators. That’s the ticket.
Another one of Joe Pedo’s “resisters” or “obstructionists.” Trump needs to have a monitor to check every damn POS communication leaving the Administration. This is BS. The “media” is making them look like fools.
Well, it appears that the MS-13 Father of the Year is on the way back to the United States and will be given his ILLEGAL ALIEN status back by the Van Hollen Boarder Jumping RATS. He’ll square everything away.
If we had a LAW making it Felony Child Abuse with immediate removal of the minor children from the family home for any public employee or officer of the court to send their minor children anywhere but the Public School System for their Primary Education, We wouldn’t have this problem.
Y’all gots to hire them poor
blacks.
Maybe they couldn’t teach these kids math, but I bet Baltimore provided plenty of “free” meals at school. To be fair, the teaching is only half the equation. Maybe the football coach can select the kids he teaches, but other teachers have to take whoever walks in the door. And even PLato, Socrates and Gamaliel would have had trouble teaching a lot of those kids.
You get what you vote for.
Whatever the dreary facts of heredity or environment, there are always a few outliers.
If there are truly ZERO testing at grade level it can only be that they are not being taught at all.
I'd like to see the teachers take those standardized tests.
Just another welfare program to provide government employment to the unqualified.
It’s not about teaching students.
It’s about back door reparations being funneled to approved racial and political groups.
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