Nancy Grasmick

It looks like the No Child Left Behind act is working, despite the controversy that followed when it was implemented in 2002. It should also be noted that students are improving on the Maryland School Assessment tests, despite the fact that Governor Martin O’Malley (D) wanted to push state school superintendent Nancy Grasmick out of the door, earlier this year. My how the tables have turned.

Scores are up twenty percent in reading and math since 2003 and the minority achievement gap is narrowing, despite a headline in The Gazette proclaiming, “Blacks, Hispanics left behind in school, report says” from a couple of weeks ago. The fact is The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, parent publication of The Gazette, report that Black and Hispanic students are in fact NOT too far behind their white counterparts.