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Comments on ESSA Draft #2, 2017

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

​Below are the comments on the Maryland Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Consolidated State Plan - DRAFT #2, June 2017 which is available for review.. Click here for the whole plan.

​Adam D. Snyder,  Chief Counsel, Opinions & Advice
Office of the Maryland Attorney General
​Baltimore County Public Schools
Verletta White, Interim Superintendent
​Barbara P. Canavan, Superintendent
Harford County Public Schools
Joseph L. Voskuhl, President
Harford County Board of Education
​Bernard J. Sadusky,Ed.D., Executive Director
Maryland Association of Community Colleges, MACC
​Bertha Knight, Child First Authority
Former Director of Enrichment, Baltimore City Schools and Member of the Maryland State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education
​Brad W. Young, President
Board of Education of Frederick County
​Candace Cortiella, Director, The Advocacy Institute
Ricki Sabia, Senior Education Policy Advisor
National Down Syndrome Congress
​Cara Jackson
Demaune A. Millard, Interim President & CEO
Family League of Baltimore
​Decoding Dyslexia Maryland, State Leaders
Laura Schultz, Lisa Blottenberger, Pamela Guest, Karleen Spitulnik
​D’Ette W. Devine, Ed.D., President, PSSAM
Cecil County Public Schools
Superintendent of Schools
​Dawn K. Branch, President
Cecil County Board of Education
​Jack R. Smith, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools
​José Luis Barata, Coordinator of STEM Initiatives
School of Science and Technology
​Jim Rosapepe, Maryland State Senator
​Joy Schaefer, MABE President and
Jill Ortman-Fouse, MABE ESSA Committee Chair
​Katherine C. Rigler
​Katharine W. Rylaarsdam
​Larry Hogan, Maryland State Governor
​Latisha Corey, President, Maryland PTA
​Legislative Policy Committee
Maryland General Assembly
President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., Co-Chair
Speaker Michael E. Busch, Co-Chair
​Legislative Services
Office of Policy Analysis, Maryland General Assembly
Warren G. Deschenaux, Executive Director
Kelsey-Anne Fung, Caroline L. B. Boice,
Sara C. Fidler and Rachel H. Hise
​Liz King
Leadership Conference Director of Education Policy
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
​Lupi Qinteros-Grady
Prince George’s County Public School (PGCPS) Board of Education
Director of the Maryland Multicultural Youth Center
PGCPS Parent
​Madeline Yates, Executive Director
Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic
​Margaret E. Williams, Executive Director
Maryland Family Network
​Maryland Coalition for Community Schools (MD4CS)
​Maryland Coalition on Equity (MCoE)
​Maryland Education Equity Coalition
​Maryland Hunger Solutions, Michael J. Wilson
Maryland State Education Association (MSEA)
​Nancy S. Grasmick, Presidential Scholar
Former Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
​Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS)
Kevin M. Maxwell, Ph.D., CEO
​Sherry Mervine
Charles County Public Schools Teacher
​Sonja Brookins Santelises, Ed.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Baltimore City Schools
​Stephen T. Schroth, Ph.D., Professor & Graduate Program Director, Early Childhood Education Department, Towson University
​Sue Fothergill, Associate Director of Policy
Attendance Works
​Teach Plus
Teacher Leader Recommendations For Maryland’s New Accountability Framework:
Policy Brief to the Maryland State Board of Education and Maryland State Department of Education
​Theresa Mitchell Dudley, President
Prince Georges' Educators' Association
​Title I Committee of Practitioners
​William E. Kirwan, Chairman
Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education
​World Language Specialists (Ten)


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