"Detroit school officials could rename Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine because residents near the midtown school reportedly “don’t support the (Trump) administration.”
Detroit school board member LaMar Lemmons is pushing to rename the Carson school because he said some residents object to any association with President Donald Trump.
The school is named after famed neurosurgeon and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, who now serves as Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, The Detroit News reports.
Lemmons lit into Carson in an interview with The Washington Post.
“It is synonymous with having Trump’s name on our school in blackface,” he said.
Lemmons claimed Carson “is doing Trump’s bidding and he has adversely affected the African American community in Detroit as well as the nation with his housing policies and he’s allied himself with a president that says he is a white nationalist and sends dog whistles that even the deaf can hear.”
...Detroit schools ranked dead last in the nation for student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2018, for at least the second year in a row.
The Detroit Free Press covered the highlights:
- In fourth-grade math, 4% of Detroit students scored at or above proficient, compared with 36% statewide, 31% in large cities and 40% nationwide for public school students.
- In fourth-grade reading, 5% of Detroit students scored at or above proficient, compared with 32% statewide, 28% in large cities and 35% nationwide for public school students.
- In eighth-grade math, 5% of Detroit students scored at or above proficient, compared with 31% statewide, 27% in large cities and 33% nationwide for public school students.
- In eighth-grade reading, 7% of Detroit students scored at or above proficient, compared with 34% statewide, 27% in large cities and 35% nationwide for public school students.
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