{"id":88521,"date":"2026-01-23T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=88521"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:08:44","slug":"sboe-january-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/sboe-january-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, January 27"},"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:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, January 27<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (January 26, 2026)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will meet virtually on Tuesday, January 27, at 10 a.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the meeting, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the State Board will review cohort graduation rate data from the 2024-2025 school year <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a draft Adolescent Literacy Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Board will also receive updates on the 2026 Legislative Session, Gov. Wes Moore\u2019s proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget, the Academic Excellence Program coaching model and the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA).<\/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 15 individuals in total on a first-come, first-served basis. Up to 10 individuals are welcomed in the morning and five in the afternoon. Once the maximum number is reached, additional individuals may be placed on a waiting list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration for public comment closes on Friday, January 23 at 11:59 p.m. Interested individuals can register by completing this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=4umvYM1JsUmIUWTfAnai6HvT6MM8XAlFnt85nSb1sH5UOVlPRTJQVkpSTFhHNTNYQk83T1pONE1YMS4u\"><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:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/pages\/meeting-agendas\/2026\/0127\/2026-01-27.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agenda and livestream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are available online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MEDIA CONTACT:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maryland State Board of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/sboe-january-27\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88521","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88521"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88528,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88521\/revisions\/88528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}