Even though Maryland’s Baltimore City School district is ranked at the top for public school funding, it has abysmal academic results.
Denisha Allen, founder of student advocacy group Black Minds Matter, said the problem is that Maryland officials don’t know what is really going on at the classroom level.
“The reason why we have such continual low performance in education for Baltimore City students is that we have a disconnect between the higher-ups—the administration—and the people who are actually in the classroom,” Allen told Fox News.
The Maryland School Report Card for the 2021–2022 school year found that less than 9 percent of black students were proficient in math and less than 30 percent were proficient in language arts, even though the school system has one of the largest budgets in the country….