{"id":877,"date":"2015-06-18T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=877"},"modified":"2015-11-03T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:25:01","slug":"06_18_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/06_18_2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Alert: Maryland State Board of Education to Meet on Tuesday, June 23"},"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\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, June 23<\/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 <a title=\"June 23, 2015 Board Meeting Agenda\" href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/06232015.pdf\">agenda<\/a> include the following:<\/p>\n<p>10:10 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>State Assessments<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board is scheduled to act on a proposal that would provide a number of optional high school assessments for local school districts, some of which could be used to determine college and career readiness.<\/p>\n<p>10:55 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Alternative Certification<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will discuss recent legislation that required Board members to consider alternative teacher certification programs for areas of the State experiencing critical teacher shortages.<\/p>\n<p>11:15 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Equitable Access for Excellent Educators<\/strong><br \/>\nU.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has asked each State to develop a plan to ensure that economically disadvantaged and minority children are taught by qualified, experienced teachers.\u00a0 MSDE will seek approval from the State Board on its plan.<\/p>\n<p>11:45 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Recognition of Members Leaving Board Service<\/strong><br \/>\nThe State Board will recognize Board President Dr. Mary Kay Finan and student member Steven Priester whose terms are expiring after the June meeting.<\/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\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, June 23, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/06_18_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-877","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\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}