{"id":2036,"date":"2016-02-19T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:43:35","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-february-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-february-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board Of Education To Meet On Tuesday, February 23"},"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\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>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on <strong>Tuesday, February 23<\/strong>, at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore. It will be held in the State Board room on the 7th floor beginning at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Items on the agenda include the following:<br \/>\n9:05 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>State Assessments <\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will take a look at the relationship between state assessment scores and college admission test results.\u00a0 In addition, board members will hear a report on the 2015 state assessment results, comparing the success of students who took the exams on paper and those who took them online.<\/p>\n<p>10:25 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Education Funding Adequacy <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bridge to Excellence Act, which emerged from the work of the Thornton Commission, was designed to ensure that education funding was adequate for all students to meet State standards.\u00a0 A follow-up study on Bridge to Excellence is currently being conducted, and the State Board will hear a report on its progress.<\/p>\n<p>1:50 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Juvenile Services Education<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear an update on the Juvenile Services Education System, its current focus, and plans for continued improvement.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0###<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Board of Education will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, February 23, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-february-23\/\">&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-2036","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\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}