Millions of Maryland taxpayer dollars are reportedly being spent on kids who aren’t in school

Millions of Maryland taxpayer dollars are being spent on educating students who are not in school, according to a local report.

Project Baltimore, FOX45 Baltimore’s investigative reporting team, found that 6,126 students across the state of Maryland were labeled “W50,” which means “whereabouts unknown,” in 2019. By comparison, at a single Baltimore high school called Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, recorded 40 students whose whereabouts were unknown.

Maryland schools received an average of $15,148 per student in 2019, which adds up to a total of nearly $93 million spent to educate students who weren’t in class across the state and nearly $606,000 at a single Baltimore high school, according to FOX45.

A teacher directs students to their rooms to get their instruments for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids program during the String Fling concert at the Lockerman Bundy Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12, 2019. - As the conductor raises her baton, dozens of children come to order, and their everyday cacophonous chatting gives way to a melodic cascade of notes. The 60 or so students are part of OrchKids, a program run by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which is hoping to bring change to the troubled city through the power of music. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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