School Administration
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools – Student Fights – School Investigation and Discipline [SB-783]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to protect the student or to escape the attack; and requiring a principal or school administration to expunge certain documentation from a student's disciplinary record under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Board of Education - Membership - Educational Support and Administrator Members [HB-923]
[Education ]
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member that may be a principal, an assistant principal, or any other administrative level professional who is actively working in a public school; and providing for the qualifications, terms, powers, and elections of the new members.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Hearing Canceled on 02/12/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - New Teachers - Retention Program [HB-986]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; requiring a county board to provide supplemental compensation to a public school employee who oversees a new teacher or serves as a mentor; and altering the content required to be included in certain teacher support and retention guidelines developed by the State Board of Education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Board of Education – Membership – Educational Support and Administrator Members [SB-712]
[Education ]
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member, that may be a principal, an assistant principal, or any other administrative level; and providing for the qualifications, terms, powers, and elections of the new members.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools and Youth Services - Crisis Support and Assistance and Workgroup Study [SB-770]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Mental Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring each local school system to provide crisis support to a public school when a teacher or other school employee with direct contact with minors is removed from the school due to alleged criminal activity or for student safety; requiring each county board of education to establish a crisis response team; requiring the State Department of Education to establish a workgroup to examine the impact of requiring applicants for certain positions to include information regarding the applicant's history of boundary-violating behavior; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Gile
Hearing Canceled on 03/26/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) [HB-773]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) [SB-482]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Prohibited Behavior on School Grounds and Property - Application [HB-627]
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[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offenses at another institution while participating in or attending a sporting event or other extracurricular program sponsored at that institution.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Favorable Report By Ways And Means on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Lifesaver Schools Program - Establishment [HB-612]
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[Public Safety ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing the Lifesaver Schools Program to recognize public schools that provide health and safety training to students and school personnel; establishing requirements and prohibitions for Lifesaver Schools; authorizing a public school to partner with the county board of education to meet the criteria to qualify as a Lifesaver School; and requiring a Lifesaver School to reapply to the Department for approval to maintain the Lifesaver School designation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Institutions of Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary Schools - Title VI Coordinators (Remove Discrimination in Education Act) [SB-435]
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[Race and Civil Rights ]
Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleging discrimination under certain provisions of law to file a complaint with a Title VI Coordinator of a local school system, as applicable.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [SB-429]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Economic Development ]
Altering the definitions of "target per pupil foundation amount", "collaborative time per pupil amount", "compensatory education per pupil amount", "English learner per pupil amount", "special education per pupil amount", "growth in the target per pupil foundation amount", and "change in the per pupil amount"; directing county boards of education to provide certain funding to local workforce development boards to support the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [HB-504]
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[Taxes ]
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[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring local school systems to develop certain countywide community school implementation plans; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Antidiscrimination Policies - Policy and Notice Requirements [HB-495]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscrimination policies to students and employees in a certain manner; and requiring, if sufficient resources are not available to provide training, a school to coordinate with a community organization with certain expertise to provide the training to students and employees at no cost.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Educator Professional Development - Course on Student Well-Being and Flourishing [HB-457]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Wolek
Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Income Tax Credit for Parent and Guardian Volunteers in Elementary and Secondary Schools PG 410-25 [HB-404]
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[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in certain schools in Prince George's County a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain application and tax credit certificate; requiring a certain county board member or school administrator to issue tax credit certificates in a certain manner; making the credit refundable; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Income Tax - Credit for Employers Providing Parental Engagement Leave PG 409-25 [HB-377]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; establishing that the credit equals the qualified employee's hourly wage rate times the number of parental leave hours used by the employee during the taxable year, up to $800; and making the credit refundable under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Educator Professional Development - Course on Student Well-Being and Flourishing [SB-350]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing Canceled on 02/10/2025
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Maine 132nd Legislature
An Act to Update the Laws Regarding Education [HB-86]
[Education ]
An Act to Update the Laws Regarding Education
Sponsored by: Rep. Holly Sargent
Passed To Be Enacted, In Concurrence. on 05/22/2025
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Maine 132nd Legislature
An Act to Update the Laws Governing Education in the Unorganized Territory [SB-22]
[Education ]
An Act to Update the Laws Governing Education in the Unorganized Territory
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Rafferty
Passed To Be Enacted In Concurrence. on 06/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan [HB-197]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to establish a Restorative Practices School; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026, on the comprehensive plan for Restorative Practices Schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 240 on 05/06/2025