{"id":1429,"date":"2015-01-23T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:02:42","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-january-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-january-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, January 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release \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 Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on <strong>Tuesday, December 27<\/strong>, at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore.\u00a0 The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in the State Board room.\u00a0 Items on this month\u2019s agenda include the following:<\/p>\n<p>9:10 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Title I Distinguished School<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will honor the latest Maryland school to be highlighted with this national award.<\/p>\n<p>9:30 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>ESEA Flexibility<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on MSDE\u2019s plans to request an extension of its flexibility waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0 Federal officials granted Maryland a waiver in July 2014, allowing the State to move forward with reforms designed to improve student learning and classroom instruction.\u00a0 The extension would maintain the waiver status through the current school year.<\/p>\n<p>10:30 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Graduation Data<\/strong><br \/>\nMSDE will release to the State Board a report about four-year cohort graduation and dropout rates for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>2 p.m.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Arts Education<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report from the Governor\u2019s P-20 Leadership Council Task Force on Arts Education in Maryland Schools.\u00a0 The task force was co-chaired by Mary Ann Mears, Founder and Trustee, Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance, and Dr. Jack Smith, MSDE\u2019s Chief Academic Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release \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 Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, December 27, at the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-january-27-2\/\">&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":[61],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-state-board-of-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","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=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}