{"id":14525,"date":"2018-11-30T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:33:14","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, December 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, December 4 at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore. The meeting will be held in the State Board room on the 7th floor beginning at 9 a.m. Items on this month\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/meeting-agendas\/2018-12-04.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agenda<\/a> include the following (times approximate):<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:25 a.m. Principals of the Year<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will honor three of Maryland\u2019s top principals: Cindy Dillion, principal of Patapsco Middle School in Howard County, the Maryland Association of Secondary Principals (MASSP) Middle School Principal of the Year; Mildred Charley-Greene, principal of Northwood High School in Montgomery County, MASSP High School Principal of the Year; and John Siebel, assistant principal at Hammond High School in Howard County, MASSP Assistant Principal of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:35 a.m. Prince George\u2019s County Audit Report<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on the follow-up audit of the Prince George\u2019s County Public Schools (PGCPS). Following allegations of grade manipulation to alter promotion and graduation rates, MSDE in 2017 contracted with Alvarez &amp; Marsal for an independent audit of the PGCPS graduation rates. Based on the initial report, the State Board requested a second audit, which Alvarez &amp; Marsal recently completed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:50 a.m. Maryland Report Card Release<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on the new Maryland Report Card website, which will go live on Tuesday. The greatly revamped site includes a variety of new accountability tools for Maryland\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 p.m. Pathways to Maryland Certification<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on the six current routes to initial Maryland educator certification. Board members will consider if all six remain aligned to MSDE\u2019s comprehensive plan to increase the rigor and accountability of educator certification and teacher preparation programs in Maryland, and may suggest revisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, December 4 at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-december-4\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"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":[22,5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases","category-overview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14641,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/14641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}