State superintendent requirements could force Maryland schools to make last-minute schedule changes [View all]

Maryland’s top school official has proposed new minimum lesson requirements that would likely upend the detailed schedules most Maryland districts have created — just as the school year is starting.

State schools superintendent Karen Salmon’s new proposal would require all school systems to offer live instruction five days a week for a certain number of hours. The minimum hours required are on a sliding scale that ranges from three hours for a pre-kindergarten student who is in a full day program to five hours for a high school student.

Salmon made the proposal shortly after an August 14 deadline for school systems to complete their plans to reopen schools.

The state school board is holding a special meeting Tuesday morning to decide on the requirements.

Read more: https://www.capitalgazette.com/education/bs-md-school-reopening-requirements-20200901-rku3nssbpvbzphf4agkpiimtly-story.html
(Annapolis Capital Gazette)