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Lebron James’ “I Promise” School Hasn’t Had A Single Student Pass The State’s Math Test
LeBron James is a G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) on the basketball court. But all that greatness has yet to trickle down in the LeBron James-supported I Promise School classrooms in Akron, Ohio.
A new Akron Beacon Journal (ABJ) report said, “This fall’s class of eighth graders at the I Promise School hasn’t had a single student pass the state’s math test since the group was in the third grade.”
The revelations were alarming to some Akron Board of Education members who asked for the data on the school’s progress that opened in 2018 as a part of the Akron Public Schools system and partially funded by the LeBron James Family Foundation.
During last week’s board meeting, Akron Public Schools board member Valerie McKitrick said, “Not one? In three years?”
“It is discouraging,” responded Keith Liechty-Clifford, the district’s director of school improvement.
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