Baltimore’s steep drop in violent crime buoyed by locking up career criminals, street patrols
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/5/baltimores-steep-drop-violent-crime-buoyed-locking-career-criminals/
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, upon taking office in 2023, told the city’s most hardened criminals to keep a toothbrush on them so they would be move-in ready for their future jail stints. Two years later, he is making good on that promise.
The top prosecutor’s focus on arresting the city’s gun-toting repeat offenders has broken the cycle of simmering beefs turning into deadly shootings.
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Damning report finds there are 23 public schools in Baltimore where NONE of the children understand basic math - as parents blame Dem-led city's 'fraud and corruption'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747209/Report-finds-23-public-schools-Baltimore-NONE-children-understand-basic-math.html
Davida Allen said she was angry the CEO of Baltimore Public Schools, Sonja Santelises, was earning a base salary of $333,125 - which rose to $444,875 with allowances - yet students were still failing.
They found that not one student among the 2,000-strong student body was reaching the required math standard in 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.
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Silly question: Can the teachers pass the grade tests they are teaching?
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