{"id":2396,"date":"2016-04-22T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2016-04-22T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:52:14","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-april-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board Of Education To Meet On Tuesday, April 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\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, April 26<\/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:<\/p>\n<p>9:50 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>GED Update <\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Labor, Licensing, and Regulations Secretary Kelly M. Schulz will present the annual report on the GED testing program and National External Diploma Program.\u00a0 DLLR oversees those programs in collaboration with the State Board.<\/p>\n<p>11 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Milken Honoree<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will recognize Angela Malone, a 7th and 8th grade science teacher and science department chair at Prince George\u2019s County\u2019s Oxon Hill Middle, who in February became the State\u2019s latest Milken National Educator.<\/p>\n<p>11:20 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>ACHIEVE Report<\/strong><br \/>\nACHIEVE, a national education nonprofit, has evaluated the nation\u2019s states on a variety of college and career readiness metrics.\u00a0 Achieve staff will report on Maryland\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>2:45 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Assessments<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board is scheduled to act on a request to publish amended regulations that govern scoring for the PARCC English 10 and Algebra I assessments as they relate to graduation from high school.<\/p>\n<p>3:30 p.m.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 School Readiness<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on the 2015 results for the states Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA).\u00a0 The KRA replaced the Maryland Model for School Readiness Assessment in 2014.<\/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, April 26, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-to-meet-on-tuesday-april-26\/\">&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-2396","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\/2396","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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}