BALTIMORE (WBFF) – There has been outrage and calls for help since our Project Baltimore story found an Augusta Fells Savage Institute student passed only three classes in four years, earning a GPA of 0.13 which ranked him near the top half of his class.
 

The student was also found to be late or absent 272 days in his first three years.
 

“This has been an ongoing problem districtwide you can’t hold students back but so much,” Marietta English said.
 

Former President of the Baltimore City Teacher’s Union, Marietta English is now the head of the American Federation of Teachers.
 

She says you can’t point the blame at just one person in this case.
 

“Rather than scorn we have to support,” she said.
 

English says we must look forward to a solution.
 

“What I think needs to happen is they need to hire parent liaison’s to check on these students who are not coming to school, find out what the issues are, how can they help these students,” English said.
 

Governor Larry Hogan has called the findings outrageous and says if there are persistently failing schools they have to be shut down.
 

“Or get rid of the principals and the teachers and start over with a new program. We’re failing the kids. That is what this is really all about. It’s these kids that are suffering,” he said.
 

Sean Kennedy with the Maryland Public Policy Institute says money isn't the answer.
 

“The system is so broken that there’s no solution other than to dissolve it and start all over again,” he said.