{"id":88920,"date":"2026-08-21T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=88920"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:27:09","slug":"board-meeting-august-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/board-meeting-august-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, August 25"},"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;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Maryland State Board of Education to Meet Tuesday, August 25<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (August 21, 2026)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will meet <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday, August 25, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 a.m., at the Nancy S. Grasmick State Education Building, 200 W. Baltimore St., in the Board Room (7th floor).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Board will consider adoption of the revised PreK-12 Mathematics Policy and a copayment model for the Child Care Scholarship Program. There will also be an in-depth analysis of the recent Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) results and a stakeholder engagement session from the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA).<\/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, August 21, 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\/meetings-2026.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agenda and livestream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are available online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<b>Maryland State Board of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/board-meeting-august-25\/\">&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-88920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88920","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=88920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88922,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88920\/revisions\/88922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}