{"id":76841,"date":"2021-08-25T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=76841"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:16:56","slug":"maryland-state-board-of-education-hosts-special-meeting-thursday-august-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-hosts-special-meeting-thursday-august-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education Hosts Special Meeting Thursday, August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CONTACT: <\/strong>Lora Rakowski, 410-767-0486 <a href=\"mailto:lora.rakowski@maryland.gov\">lora.rakowski@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maryland State Board of Education Hosts Special Meeting Thursday, August 26<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>S<strong><em>pecial In-Person Meeting Held at State Education Building for Discussion of Statewide School Masking Requirements<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BALTIMORE, MD (August 25, 2021) <\/strong>\u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Thursday, August 26<sup>th<\/sup> at 3 p.m. at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. Baltimore Street in the 7<sup>th<\/sup> floor State Board Room.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will feature discussion of statewide school masking requirements and will also be available for viewing via livestream. The complete agenda and livestream are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/meeting-agendas\/2021\/2021-08-26.aspx\">http:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/meeting-agendas\/2021\/2021-08-26.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The State Board has restored full in-person meetings, open to the public. In accordance with the mask mandate reinstated by Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, effective August 9<sup>th<\/sup> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mayor.baltimorecity.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021-08-05-mayor-scott-reinstates-indoor-mask-requirement-baltimore-city\">https:\/\/mayor.baltimorecity.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021-08-05-mayor-scott-reinstates-indoor-mask-requirement-baltimore-city<\/a>), and in line with current Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance,<strong> everyone attending the State Board meeting in-person is <u>required<\/u> to wear a mask while in the MSDE building<\/strong>. Masks will be available on site.<\/p>\n<p>Public comment will not be accepted during the meeting. Members of the public may submit written comments to be distributed to the State Board members. Statements can be sent electronically to <a href=\"mailto:stateboard.msde@maryland.gov\">stateboard.msde@maryland.gov<\/a> or mailed to the Office of the State Board, 200 W. Baltimore Street, 7<sup>th<\/sup> Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/08\/MSBE-Special-Meeting-8.26.21-1.pdf\">MSBE Special Meeting 8.26.21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0                       <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-state-board-of-education-hosts-special-meeting-thursday-august-26\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"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":[22,38,5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases","category-overview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76841","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\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76851,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76841\/revisions\/76851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}