{"id":87483,"date":"2024-07-19T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=87483"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:44:33","slug":"md-board-july-23-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/md-board-july-23-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education Meets Tuesday, July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MEDIA CONTACT:<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<br \/><\/span><a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Maryland State Board of Education Meets Tuesday, July 23<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Board will review Draft Literacy Policy, teacher licensure changes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (July 19, 2024) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will meet on Tuesday, July 23 at 9 a.m. at the Nancy S. Grasmick State Education Building, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), 200 W. Baltimore St., in the State Board Room (7th floor).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The State Board will elect new officers at the meeting. There will be a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">discussion of the proposed Draft Literacy Policy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and presentations from literacy stakeholders Maryland READS and The Reading League. The State Board will also consider changes to certain assessment requirements for teacher licensure, and will hold a special recognition of students competing in the National Civics Bee this fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Public Comment<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The State Board welcomes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/PublicComment.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public comment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> both in-person and virtually during meetings. Registration is limited to 10 individuals on a first-come, first-served basis. Once the maximum number is reached, additional individuals may be placed on a waiting list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public comment registration opens the week before the Board meeting date and ends at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 22. Interested individuals can register by completing this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=U8MsVePDVk6Uspj01BuhjAWdJhZ7kOJKgQFDWwi4NEdUOFMzQlNDMDNDN0VPWjU5QkhVUTE0UlFEUC4u\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Confirmed registrants for public comment will be notified. Comments are limited to three minutes for each speaker and monitored by staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The complete <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/meeting-agendas\/2024\/0723\/2024-07-23.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">agenda and livestream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are available online. The meeting will also be on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/xz-hPLl6PQs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>###<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland State Board of Education will meet on Tuesday, July 23 at 9 a.m. at the Nancy S. Grasmick State Education Building, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), 200 W. Baltimore St., in the State Board Room (7th floor).\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-87483","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\/87483","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=87483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88419,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87483\/revisions\/88419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}