Maryland House Bill 1268 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-28 - Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a standard to measure and quantify the student achievement gap, identify the student achievement gap between specified student groups, and issue best practices and annual benchmarks to close the student achievement gap between specified groups on or before July 1, 2018; requiring a local school system to document the student achievement gap in the district for the previous 20 years and develop a 5-year strategic plan to close the student achievement gap; etc.

Education - Student Achievement Gap Standard - Establishment (Maryland Student Achievement Act)

Sen. Alonzo Washington [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-28	House	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-10	House	First Reading Ways and Means

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1268?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1268f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0008/hb1268.pdf