Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB504: Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
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.
What the bill says
An act concerning Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act FOR the purpose of authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; 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" for certain fiscal years…
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act FOR the purpose of authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; 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" for certain fiscal years; repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; 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; altering a certain reporting requirement of local workforce development boards; requiring the Accountability and Implementation Board to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the effectiveness of the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; altering and adding methods for determining a certain limitation on education funding increases under certain circumstances; freezing certain …