{"id":1300,"date":"2015-04-10T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2015-12-09T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:07:05","slug":"state-superintendent-to-visit-frederick-washington-county-blue-ribbon-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/state-superintendent-to-visit-frederick-washington-county-blue-ribbon-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"State Superintendent To Visit Frederick, Washington County Blue Ribbon Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Dr. Lowery&#8217;s Tour of Excellence Goes to Western Maryland on April 14<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486, Darla Strouse (day of event) 410-303-1013<\/p>\n<p>Maryland State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery will visit a pair of the State\u2019s top schools on Tuesday, April 14, as part of her annual Blue Ribbon Tour of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lowery will visit two of Maryland\u2019s latest Blue Ribbon Schools: Smithsburg High School in Washington County and Kemptown Elementary in Frederick County.\u00a0 Both schools have had remarkable histories of high achievement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0\u00a0State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Washington County Superintendent Clayton Wilcox (at Smithsburg)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frederick County Superintendent Teresa Alban (at Kemptown)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington Board President Donna Brightman (Smithsburg)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frederick Board President Brad Young and VP Liz Barrett (Kemptown)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maryland Senators Ronald Young, William Folden, and Kathy Afzali (Kemptown)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Del. David Vogt (Kemptown)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smithsburg Principal Michael Chilcutt<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kemptown Principal Kristen Canning<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sponsors Becky Edwards (SMART Technologies) and Elaine Freedman<br \/>\n(Lightspeed Technologies)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN AND WHERE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>9:30 a.m.<br \/>\nSmithsburg High School, 66 N. Main Street, Smithsburg, MD 21783<br \/>\n(301) 766-8337<\/p>\n<p>1:40 p.m.<br \/>\nKemptown Elementary School, 3456 Kemptown Church Road, Monrovia, MD 21770<br \/>\n(240)236-3500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lowery&#8217;s Tour of Excellence Goes to Western Maryland on April 14<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release<br \/>\nContact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486, Darla Strouse (day of event) 410-303-1013<br \/>\nMaryland State Superintendent <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/state-superintendent-to-visit-frederick-washington-county-blue-ribbon-schools\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[51,68],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-state-superintendent","tag-washington-county-blue-ribbon-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}