Chronic Absenteeism Trends and Bright Spots
by Carey M. Wright, Ed. D. Interim State Superintendent of School
The data is not good. Howard County is doing the best, still it has 18.4% chronical absentee.


In order to promote school curriculums to be more inclusive to include APPI community’s past, present, challenge and achievement in the whole community perspective, I have several summer interns Lily Peng, Ryan Zhou, Michael Hou and Sophie Zhang, did a study on this and here is the report.
I wish this will shed a light on the issue AAPI community is facing: ignored, transparent or irrelevant in our history context. We should be able to do better on this.


Accountability and Implementation Board
Dr. Isiah (Ike) Leggett, Chair
Ms. Rachel Hise, Executive Director
Maryland State Department of Education
Dr. Clarence C. Crawford, Chair of the State Board of Education
Mr. Mohammed Choudhury, State Superintenden

Maryland State Board of Education (MSBOE) and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) in February 2022 to provide input for the development of a multi-year strategic plan for Maryland’s education system. To date, 22,950 Marylanders have responded to the survey which will remain open for the foreseeable future. The preliminary results included in the attached document identify the five top priorities Marylanders have identified in their responses thus far, including:


It is very interesting to see the divergence among different school system. The whole survey result is attached here:
The governor has no mandate on school reopening. However MSDE ( Maryland State Department of Education) can mandate the school reopening by March 1st, 2021.
His whole remark could be found in the pdf below:

More details could be find the ppt below: