Because the currencies tem for financing renovation will not catch up to the needs of the schools. Teachers students and parents all gathered at that rally described bad conditions at city schools including broken windows and hot classrooms and inadequate computer labs. They called upon law makers to provide the resources to rebuild the states Oldest School buildings. The legislation would allow us to take existing state fund and leverage those funds to affect wide scale renovation. Reporter that rally was sponsored by Baltimore Education Coalition the mayor and city school chief urged them to pass the bill. It comes for a hearing on march 5th. Sherrie johnson, abc2 news. Merrill is the most dangerous state for teachers according to the most recent data compiled maryland is the most dangerous state for teachers according to most recent data compiled. Abc2 news investigators looked deeper into the issue to find out whats going on in your childs classroom. Teachers bullied in their rooms
things that teachers can help every student be successful and be prepared for college and career. so, chet, the school improvement network is a for profit private company and actually you used to work in the educational technology space. one thing that concerned me is when you have a private company operating in the education space a lot of times they re putting profit first rather than the best education for our kids. how do we distinguish between companies that are really doing a good job helping make our education system better and those that are just out for a quick buck? i think there are a lot of us that are very dedicated to a cause. for us it s all about increasing student achievement and making sure every student is college and career ready. for us that s the cause. we found that being a for profit organization enabled us to reinvest in the innovations that states and school districts simply can t do. so for us, i think the way an organization usually looks at us is a stra
solution. chet litton is the ceo and president of the school improvement network. his company is dedicated to improving student achievement through teacher training and chet says the public and private sectors have got to come together to help our students out. thanks so much for joining us, chad. it s an honor to be here, crystal. thank you. i wanted your take. obviously we have many educational challenges across the country. what do you see as some of the biggest challenges and where are the opportunities? what can we do here? well, i think you hit some of the big challenges. we see high drop out rates, teachers struggling to meet the needs of all their students. the reality is there are great things going on and the school improvement network is one thing we re focused on is what are the innovations really working with kids and helping teachers to be impactful and successful with them? there are a lot of things going on across the nation but few people ever hear about them. we