{"id":1359,"date":"2015-02-27T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:04:53","slug":"special-parcc-assessment-information-session-targets-spanish-speaking-parents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/special-parcc-assessment-information-session-targets-spanish-speaking-parents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Special PARCC Assessment Information Session Targets Spanish-Speaking Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>MSDE Experts Will Take Questions<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education on Monday is hosting an information session to help Spanish-speaking parents gain exposure to the new state assessments in English Language Arts and math that their children begin taking in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Parents will participate in an online tutorial and review sample math tests. This session is specifically for parents of elementary and middle-school students in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, in grades 3-8.<\/p>\n<p>Kristina Kyles, Assistant State Superintendent for the Division of Student, Family and School Support, will be on hand to welcome parents and provide introductory remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The new PARCC assessments are aligned to the Maryland College and Career-Ready Standards, which are based on the Common Core State Standards, adopted in 2010 and fully implemented in 2013-14.\u00a0 The testing window for PARCC\u2019s Performance Based Assessment opens next week.<\/p>\n<p>Bilingual speakers will be on hand to translate for parents who are not fluent in English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>PARCC Information Session for Spanish-Speaking Parents<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>6:30 &#8211; 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Monday, March 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jos\u00e9 Ruiz Community Center, 606 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231<br \/>\n(On-street meter parking available; parking behind building also available.)<\/p>\n<p>Information on the event is available in Spanish, click <a title=\"Special PARCC Assessment Information Session Targets Spanish-Speaking Parents Event Information\" href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/programs\/parcc\/docs\/Parents-PARCC-Spanish-03022015.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSDE Experts Will Take Questions<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Department of Education on Monday is hosting an information session to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/special-parcc-assessment-information-session-targets-spanish-speaking-parents-2\/\">&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":[55,76,56],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-parcc","tag-parcc-assessments","tag-parcc-test"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}