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President Trump calls out Baltimore on education: 'Zero students who can do basic mathematics'

President Donald Trump held a ceremony at the White House Thursday as he signed an executive order that would dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Trump, explaining the rationale for his action, rattled off statistics about education failures in America.

"After 45 years, the United States spends more money by far on education than any other country,” Trump said, adding that the funding per pupil was especially high considering what the president considers to be poor results.

He said America ranks near the bottom of the list in terms success, specifically in reading and math skills. “Students perform worse today than when the department opened” in 1979, Trump said, as he gave an example of an education failure some 40 miles north of the White House.

“In Baltimore, 40% of the high schools have zero students who can do basic mathematics. Not even the very simplest of mathematics — I said, ‘Give me your definition of basic.’ And, they’re talking about like adding a few numbers together,” Trump said.

No other cities were specifically called out for failing schools in the president’s speech in which he said education would be returned to states at a cost that is “half” and “many times better.”

In September 2023, FOX45’s Project Baltimore reported that it had obtained unredacted