{"id":1923,"date":"2016-02-02T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:14:56","slug":"baltimore-city-title-i-school-receives-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/baltimore-city-title-i-school-receives-national-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore City Title I School Receives National Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Edgewood Elementary Named Title I Distinguished School<\/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\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore City\u2019s Edgewood Elementary School has been named a National Title I Distinguished School for the 2016 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The school was honored by the National Association of State Title I Directors at the National Title I Conference in Houston over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdgewood Elementary School is committed to promoting a positive learning environment and continuous academic improvement for the success of all of its students,\u201d said Dr. Jack Smith, Interim State Superintendent of Schools.\u00a0 \u201cThe school has forged a deep connection with its community, developed creative uses for educational technology, and has used data to improve student achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Title I is the largest federal aid program in K-12 education.\u00a0 Schools use Title I funds to improve the education of students in high poverty areas.\u00a0 MSDE administers Maryland\u2019s Title I program and nominated the school after a thorough review of student achievement data based on the Maryland state assessments.<\/p>\n<p>Edgewood serves 313 students in grades PreK to 5.\u00a0 Ninety-six percent of the student body is eligible for free- or reduced-price meals.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgewood Elementary Named Title I Distinguished School<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\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nBaltimore City\u2019s Edgewood Elementary School has been named a National Title I Distinguished <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/baltimore-city-title-i-school-receives-national-honor\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}