- BALTIMORE -- About 20,000
elementary and middle-school students in Baltimore will have to repeat
a grade in the coming school year.
-
- More than one-fourth of schoolchildren in grades one
through eight failed to meet the city's much tougher passing standards
over the summer. And that's after most of those who were in danger of failing
went to summer school for five weeks -- 29,000 children in all.
-
- School board member Tyson Tildon said he's encouraged
by the result. He said it means thousands of children who cannot read,
write or do math will no longer continue to pass as they have for decades
in Baltimore.
-
- Tildon said without the removal of social promotion,
the extent of the problem would never have been known.
-
- Administrators say they will give failing students extra
help after school and on weekends to help them pass, some by October. They
expect 5,000 to 6,000 students to move on to the next grade.
|
