As in many big cities, the schools in Baltimore are generously funded by taxpayer money, yet utterly failing in terms of achievement. Now an unusual coalition of taxpayers and a prominent civil rights attorney is taking on the problem through a novel lawsuit that they hope has national implications.
Ben Crump has gained recognition as a civil rights attorney, representing families of blacks killed in controversial encounters, including George Floyd, who died after resisting arrest in 2020. The police officer who held him down was convicted of murder.
And 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, killed in 2012. A jury found the Hispanic man who shot him did so in self-defense.
Now, Crump is in an unusual alliance with conservative activists in Baltimore who are attacking the city’s broken education system.
They’re suing Baltimore’s mayor and school board, saying, “Despite receiving some of the highest funding per pupil in the nation for many years, the Baltimore City Public Schools has expended billions of dollars in taxpayer money, while failing to properly educate Baltimore City’s children.”
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