Why are children in Baltimore sitting in frigid classrooms?
Republican Governor Larry Hogan says the public schools are mismanaged.
Jess Gartner, a former teacher and current analyst of education finance, fact checks Governor Hogan and says he is wrong/lying, to evade responsibility for inequitable funding.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Lies are in. Trump is one of many models. Republicans who are silent are supporting Trump’s lies and deeply offensive, racist pronouncements. Solid investigative reporting and wide circulation of the facts may not be sexy and head-line grabbing but it more important than ever..
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Trump’s entire structural ship is rotting, and all who sit silently pretending not to smell the rot will hopefully find it too late to jump ship when it finally goes down.
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I watched the video of Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical Center dumping a patient in the street and it struck me how similar it was to some no-excuses charter schools. Guards removing the unwanted patient from the building — after all, that patient failed to get better so that means she wasn’t trying hard enough and needed to be punished or leave.
But according to the education reformers who believe in the philosophy of “dump them if they aren’t cost-effective to teach:”, the University of Maryland should be praised for showing their willingness to get rid of the “bad” patients who don’t deserve to be in their hospital.
I’m sure that Mike Petrilli will soon write a piece for “the 74” in which he defends patient dumping because some patients are just not doing what they should to get well and it’s their own fault if the hospital tells them they have to leave. After all, according to Petrilli’s reasoning, the way we know those patients are unworthy is that they aren’t getting better without the hospital having to waste any more money on them. And if the hospital says it’s the patient’s fault they had to be dumped, Petrilli will believe that is true because the hospital is always right about who deserves to be treated and who needs to be dumped.
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Some patients just don’t have enough grit…
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It is possible that the two following statements are both true: Baltimore and other large urban school districts need far more funding to upgrade school facilities. Baltimore and other large urban school districts receive more than enough money to provide basics such as heat, light, and potable water to currently enrolled students.
I’ve linked to this already in another comment, but I recommend reading this piece which runs through the fraud, corruption, and mismanagement of the funds provided to Baltimore City schools for facilities management: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/how-baltimore-students-got-left-in-the-cold/549866/
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