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...through a single large urban district--Baltimore's--to test the widespread assumption that urban schools fail because they don't have the money to do better. Last year the city spent $646 million on 110,000 children for a per-pupil total of $5,873, just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically...
...where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County, 85% passed...
...year-old Kennedy School student is getting a jump start on his political career this year as he begins his campaign for a seat in Maryland's State Legislature...
Carlson, a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, said the biggest obstacle to victory is that the has been away from home for four years. He spent two-and-a-half years at Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, and a year as an elementary school teacher in New York before coming to Cambridge...
Carlson said he has not yet developed political goals beyond the Maryland state legislature...