{"id":846,"date":"2015-07-24T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:48:24","slug":"07_24_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/07_24_2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Alert: Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, July 28"},"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\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, July 28<\/strong>, at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. 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It will be held in the State Board room on the 7th floor beginning at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Items on the <a title=\"July 28, 2015 State Board of Education Agenda\" href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/07282015.pdf\">agenda<\/a> include the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9:45 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>State Board Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Board is scheduled to elect a new Board President and Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>10:15 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Early Learning <\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on Maryland\u2019s implementation of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant, including the launch of the Maryland EXCELS program, a voluntary rating and improvement program for child care facilities.<\/p>\n<p>10:50 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Funding Adequacy<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will hear a report on the progress of the <a title=\"Study of Adequacy of Funding for Education in the State Of Maryland\" href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/adequacystudy\/\">Study of Adequacy of Funding for Education in the State Of Maryland<\/a>, currently being compiled by Augenblick, Palaich &amp; Associates as a follow-up to the Bridge to Excellence Act signed 10 years ago.\u00a0 The final report is scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>11:10 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>PARCC Assessments<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will be provided with a report on the first full administration of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests.<\/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\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, July 28, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/07_24_2015\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[38,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}