{"id":1502,"date":"2014-10-24T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:48:51","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-october-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-october-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, October 28"},"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 monthly meeting on <strong>Tuesday, October 28<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/stateboard\/docs\/boardagenda\/10282014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">agenda<\/a> include the following:<\/p>\n<p>9:10 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Teacher and Principal Evaluations<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will be presented with a report on the first full year of Teacher and Principal Evaluations.\u00a0 All 22 local systems that signed on to Maryland\u2019s Race to the Top grant program evaluated their teachers and principals in 2014 on models that followed State parameters.<\/p>\n<p>9:30 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Strategic Plan<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will receive Maryland\u2019s STEM strategic plan and learn about the vision of STEM education and how its expansion will strengthen the State\u2019s success moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>10:30 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>School Discipline Report<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Council of State Governments\u2019 Justice Center will provide a presentation on the \u201cSchool Discipline Consensus Report,\u201d which details national data and best practices for keeping students in school and out of the juvenile justice system.\u00a0 The Maryland State Board of Education has been among the nation\u2019s leaders in reforming school discipline regulations and practices.<\/p>\n<p>11:30 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>High School Graduation Requirements<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will consider adjustments to graduation requirements during the transition to the new high school tests developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC).<\/p>\n<p>2:40 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Teacher Staffing<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will review the 2014-16 Maryland Teacher Staffing Report and will be asked to approve critical shortage areas in content, geographic location, race, and gender.\u00a0 The critical shortage areas provide the basis for a number of incentive programs for educators.<\/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 monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 28, at the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-october-28\/\">&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":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}