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‘Crumbling Schools’: Lawmaker links poor Baltimore school conditions to lack of state funding

March 18, 2024
Captured in a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary school, this photograph depicts a typical classroom scene, where an audience of school children were seated on the floor before a teacher at the front of the room, who was reading an illustrated storybook, during one of the scheduled classroom sessions. Assisting the instructor were two female students to her left, and a male student on her right, who was holding up the book, while the seated classmates were raising their hands to answer questions related to the story just read.

A state lawmaker who represents Baltimore City and oversees K-12 education funding said she wants her colleagues to visit Baltimore City Public Schools campuses to see the conditions of the buildings. Baltimore City Delegate Stephanie Smith, D-District 45, agrees that the issue is funding and said some people need to see it to believe it. “I just think we have to continue to make the case to our colleagues that our students are going to schools they wouldn’t even want their pets to enter,” Smith told 11 News Investigates.

Article Source: WBALTV

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