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Lillian M. Lowery served as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education from July 2012 to September, 2015. [citation needed] Nancy Grasmick served as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education from 1991 until June 30, 2011. [citation needed] Carey M. Wright is the current Maryland Superintendent of Schools. [1]
In 2009, the Maryland state public schools system was ranked #1 in the nation overall as a result of three separate, independent studies conducted by publications Education Week, Newsweek, and MGT of America. [13] [14] [15] "Education Week" has ranked Maryland public education #1 in the nation for two years in a row, since 2008.
The End of Course Test (EOCT, EOC, or EOC Test) is an academic assessment conducted in many states by the State Board of Education and Island of Bermuda.Georgia, for example, tests from the ninth to twelfth grades, and North Carolina tests for any of the four core class subjects (math, science, social studies, and English).
In 1812, Maryland state began to raise money for a Free School Fund by taxing the renewal of bank charters (Chapter 79, Acts of 1812), and in 1864 appointed Libertus Van Bokkelen as the first Maryland State Superintendent of Public Instruction. [1]
Alabama requires the Stanford Achievement Test Series; and in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Assessment. That state has discontinued its usage of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills . Since the 2007–08 school year, Kentucky has required that all students at public high schools take the ACT in their junior year.
Calvert County Public Schools is a public school district serving all of Calvert County, Maryland.The district is governed by a six-person Board of Education, five of which are elected by the public in non-partisan elections, and a student elected by the Calvert Association of Student Councils.
The Maryland High School Assessments (HSA) are standardized tests that measure school and individual student progress toward the High School Core Learning Goals of the U.S. state of Maryland, which were established after passing of the No Child Left Behind Act. Passing the HSA is one of several graduation requirements beginning with the ...
Anne Arundel County Public Schools is the public school district serving all of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. With over 85,000 students and 126 schools, [ 2 ] the AACPS school system is the 4th largest in Maryland and the 39th largest in the United States.