Maryland Schools Receive Top Rating, Still Face Obstacles
Maintenance of Effort funding laws are one obstacle in ensuring the state continues to be a leader in education, according to the president of the Maryland State Education Association.
For the fourth year in a row, Education Week magazine ranked Maryland public schools as No. 1 in the country. The annual state-by-state report card put Maryland on top with a "B+" rating and cited the state’s excellence in social issues, early childhood development and college readiness. Maryland State Education Association President Clara Floyd expressed her pride about the ranking in a released statement but acknowledged that key issues still stand in the way of making the public school system better. “To continue to move our top-ranked schools forward, it is imperative that we work together to repair Maryland’s broken Maintenance of Effort (MOE) law and safeguard local school funding,” Floyd said in the release. The MOE law has …
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