{"id":992,"date":"2015-05-26T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=992"},"modified":"2015-11-10T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:18:35","slug":"05_26_2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/05_26_2015\/","title":{"rendered":"State Superintendent To Spotlight Baltimore County Blue Ribbon School Dr. Lowery&#8217;s Tour of Excellence Goes to Pine Grove Elementary on May 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Dr. Lowery&#8217;s Tour of Excellence Goes to Pine Grove Elementary on May 27<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release<\/p>\n<p>Contacts: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nDarla Strouse, Director of Blue Ribbon Program (day of event), 410-303-1013<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD (May 26, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>Maryland State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery will celebrate the success of one the State\u2019s top schools on Tuesday, as her annual Blue Ribbon Tour of Excellence makes a stop at Pine Grove Elementary School in Baltimore County.<\/p>\n<p>Pine Grove Elementary is one of six Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools selected earlier this year.\u00a0 The school has a strong history of academic achievement, with more than 95 percent of its students hitting proficiency targets on State assessments with no gap in achievement among racial subgroups.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><strong>State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Baltimore County School Board President David Uhlfelder<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sen. Kathy Clausmeier<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Delegate Susan Aumann<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Delegate Chris West<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Baltimore County Superintendent Jane Lichter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Principal Jean Wilson<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Sponsors Tammy Blazenyak (Carson Scholars Fund), Elaine Freedman and Merri Bragg (Lightspeed Technologies), Becky Edwards (SMART Technologies), Gil Aragona (NTA Life), and Mary Pat Shortt (Rudolph\u2019s Office and Computer Supply).<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">9:30 &#8211; 11 a.m.<br \/>\nWednesday, May 27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"><strong>WHERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">Pine Grove Elementary School<br \/>\n2701 Summit Avenue<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD \u00a021234<br \/>\n(410) 887-5267<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lowery&#8217;s Tour of Excellence Goes to Pine Grove Elementary on May 27<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release<br \/>\nContacts: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nDarla Strouse, Director of Blue Ribbon Program (day <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/05_26_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":[5,9],"tags":[53,51],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-baltimore-county-blue-ribbon-school","tag-state-superintendent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}