No student @ LeBron's 'I Promise' school has passed the state's basic math test in 3 years

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LeBron's I Promise School – which teaches children from 1st to 8th grade – has recently been outed for poor performance in mathematics.

The Akron Beacon Journal reported this week: "This fall's class of eighth graders at the I Promise School hasn't had a single student pass the state's basic math test since the group was in the third grade."

During a school board meeting this week, a puzzled Akron Public Schools board member Valerie McKitrick asked, "Not one? In three years?"

Keith Liechty-Clifford, the district's director of school improvement, responded, "It is discouraging."

The Akron Beacon Journal added, "The state has also issued its first concern about the school: two of I Promise's biggest subgroups of students, black students and those with disabilities, are now testing in the bottom 5% in the state, landing the school on the Ohio Department of Education's list of those requiring targeted intervention."

School board President Derrick Hall said, "For me as a board member, I just think about all the resources that we're providing, and I just, I'm just disappointed that I don't think, it doesn't appear like we're seeing the kind of change that we would expect to see."

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