Thousands of Maryland high school seniors must do remedial work to prepare them for college
Thousands of high school seniors across Maryland will be required this fall to do remedial work in math and English — even if they've passed those classes their entire student career — because they are not considered ready for college.
Suburban school systems in the Baltimore region project that about 40 percent of seniors scored too low on the SAT and other college prep tests and must do "transition" remedial coursework, while the city projects that at least half of seniors will need to do so.
This is the first year for the remedial coursework required under a 2013 law.
"We knew the standards were coming. We knew they were vastly more rigorous than the expectations were before. Now the day of reckoning has come," said Baltimore schools CEO Sonja Santelises.
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