{"id":88680,"date":"2026-04-24T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=88680"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:34:59","slug":"sboe-meeting-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/sboe-meeting-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, April 28"},"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<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, April 28<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (April 24, 2026)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education will meet on Tuesday, April 28, at 9 a.m. at the Dr. Carol S. Parham Building, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, 2644 Riva Road, in the Board Room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Board will consider adoption of regulations related to charter school funding, library media services and educator licensure assessments. The Board will also receive updates on College and Career Readiness, dual enrollment data, the Division of Rehabilitation Services, and the Maryland Corps\/Service Year Option Program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In celebration of the Month of the Military Child, the State Board will recognize Maryland\u2019s 27 Purple Star School honorees for exceptional support of military-connected students and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Public Comment<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Board welcomes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/links-1.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fmarylandpublicschools.org%2Fstateboard%2FPages%2FPublicComment.aspx\/1\/0100019c7d1d12ba-fc077ba4-3598-4573-9e7f-c9d41cfa78ed-000000\/kYDnzqxv8IHyh9TGjwHCY3wO0R7sLbuB0c_ukvtaNds=445\"><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 on a first-come, first-served basis. Up to 10 individuals are welcome 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, April 24, at 11:59 p.m. Interested individuals can register by completing this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/links-1.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2FPages%2FResponsePage.aspx%3Fid=4umvYM1JsUmIUWTfAnai6HvT6MM8XAlFnt85nSb1sH5UOVlPRTJQVkpSTFhHNTNYQk83T1pONE1YMS4u\/1\/0100019c7d1d12ba-fc077ba4-3598-4573-9e7f-c9d41cfa78ed-000000\/bswqL3wpVmuhfRUsCo5hv2cFhigmS9leIJALaOCihys=445\"><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\/0428\/2026-04-28.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;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\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<\/span><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<b>Maryland State Board of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/sboe-meeting-april-2026\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"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-88680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88680","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\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88683,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88680\/revisions\/88683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}