{"id":87412,"date":"2024-02-27T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=87412"},"modified":"2024-12-18T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:42:43","slug":"8-schools-purple-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/8-schools-purple-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Schools Earn Purple Star Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">MEDIA CONTACT:<br \/>Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<br \/><a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Eight Schools Earn Purple Star Designation<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anne Arundel, Calvert, Howard, Queen Anne and St. Mary\u2019s schools among those honored for strong support of students from military families.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (February 27, 2024) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Today, the Maryland State Department of Education announced the inaugural group of eight Purple Star Schools, recognizing their strong services and support for students from military families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The honorees include three from Anne Arundel County, two from Queen Anne\u2019s County and one each from Calvert, Howard and St. Mary\u2019s counties:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Bellows Springs Elementary School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Howard County Public School System<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Captain Walter Francis Duke Elementary School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Mary\u2019s County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Kent Island High School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Queen Anne\u2019s County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>MacArthur Middle School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Anne Arundel County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Meade High School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Anne Arundel County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Mt. Harmony Elementary School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Calvert County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Queen Anne\u2019s County High School<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Queen Anne\u2019s County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>West Meade Early Education Center<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Anne Arundel County Public Schools<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStudents whose family members serve in the armed forces have unique needs,\u201d said Dr. Carey M. Wright, Interim State Superintendent of Schools. \u201cSchool communities that go above and beyond to address their needs and create a welcoming environment deserve this recognition. We salute our first Purple Star Schools and look forward to bringing others into the fold.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Criteria for the Purple Star Schools designation includes identifying a staff member as the point of contact for newly-enrolled military connected students and their families; providing easily accessible digital resources and a student-led program to help ease the transition; and offering appropriate staff training and professional development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These eight schools will maintain the Purple Star Schools designation through the 2024-25 academic year. Maryland, which implemented the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/about\/Pages\/DSFSS\/PurpleStar\/Purple-Star.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Purple Star Schools Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2023, joined 37 other states in this nationwide initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Maryland State Department of Education announced the inaugural group of eight Purple Star Schools, recognizing their strong services and support for students from military families.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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":[38,5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases","category-overview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87412","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87413,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87412\/revisions\/87413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}