Maryland NAACP confronts 'dreadful' Black student outcomes by calling out state, local leaders: 'Intolerable'
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Maryland's NAACP chapter announced plans to hold a conference to bring together education experts to develop plans to resolve poor outcomes for African-American students.
"Lagging academic achievement, students graduating without necessary proficiency, breakdown in school discipline, inappropriate treatment of special education students, and school to prison pipeline are among ongoing issues plaguing too many of these students as well as others," it continued. Taylor Penley is a production assistant with Fox News.
The press release detailed plans for the statewide conference set to take place on June 15 and 16 at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights and said its goal is to bring together educational experts in from the local, state and federal levels to provide solutions for "dreadful" outcomes schools currently exhibit.
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