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.