{"id":1610,"date":"2014-08-22T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2015-12-28T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:45:53","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-august-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-august-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, August 26"},"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, August 26<\/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, and is scheduled to run for a half day.\u00a0 Items on this month\u2019s agenda include the following:<\/p>\n<p>9:35 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Sports Safety<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear an update from the Medical Advisory Committee to the Maryland Public School Athletic Association. The MPSSAA established the Medical Advisory Committee composed of family practice physicians, neurologists, orthopedists, dermatologists, certified athletic trainers, and others, to provide guidance designed to improve the safety of students engaged in interscholastic athletics.<\/p>\n<p>11:05 a.m. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Graduation Requirements<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board is scheduled to act on planned changes to the Maryland high school graduation requirements, including the addition of a fourth mathematics course to be required at the high school level. The changes were first proposed in April.<\/p>\n<p>3:10 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Race to the Top<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear its regular monthly update on the progress being made on MSDE\u2019s 54 Race to the Top grant projects.\u00a0 In addition, the State Board will hear a report from the Center for Application and Innovation Research in Education (CAIRE) on the implementation of Maryland\u2019s College and Career Ready Standards.<\/p>\n<p>3:45 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Board Meeting Dates<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will adopts its meeting calendar for 2015.<\/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, August 26, at the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-august-26\/\">&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-1610","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\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}