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Ch. 664
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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their high school years and adjust their course curricula accordingly; requiring
the Department to implement and evaluate certain summer instructional
programs; requiring the Department to provide certain financial incentives to
county boards of education to increase enrollments in core college preparation
programs until a certain date and, after that date, requiring the State Board to
adopt regulations requiring that students complete those programs before
graduating; requiring that the Department provide financial incentives to
county boards to reward high schools that increase the college matriculation
rates of disadvantaged and capable students; requiring that the impact of the
programs be evaluated according to certain criteria; requiring the K-16
partnership to develop and seek funding for certain concurrent educational
programs; requiring the Department to develop a comprehensive program for
recruiting and retaining teachers, and requiring that the recruiting program
contain certain elements and be measured by certain criteria; requiring that the
Department, working with county boards, design and use a method for annually
evaluating principals; requiring that each county board provide a summer
institute training program for new teachers, and requiring that the program
contain certain elements; requiring that certain public school teachers complete
certain educational requirements within a certain period or be decertified;
increasing a certain grant to prospective public school teachers who meet certain
conditions while the same teachers take a teacher certification examination and
altering the conditions for the grant; changing the criteria for a certain stipend;
requiring the governing boards of institutions of higher education to report on
the quality of their teacher education programs; requiring the governing boards,
the Department, and the Commission to develop criteria for measuring the
quality of teacher education programs; requiring that the Commission
recommend to the governing boards, after a certain date, that any teacher
education program that does not meet the criteria developed be discontinued;
requiring that the annual Commission report on the College Preparation
Intervention Program contain certain elements; requiring the Commission to
fully fund the Maryland Teacher Scholarship Program and review scholarship
programs in other states; requiring that the K-16 Partnership annually
schedule a conference on minority postsecondary achievement that includes
certain elements; allowing the Maryland Scholarship Administration to issue
certain grants at any time during the year and altering the amount of the
Educational Excellence Award; requiring the Commission to develop certain
scholarships for disadvantaged and capable students who transfer from
community colleges to other institutions of higher education; requiring that the
Commission administer college readiness escrow accounts for high school
students who complete core college preparation courses; providing for the
administration of those accounts; requiring the Commission to annually reports
the number of Maryland Teacher Scholarships granted and report the
characteristics of the grantees; defining certain terms; providing for the
termination of certain provisions of this Act; requiring certain reports; and
generally relating to educational initiatives intended to directly and indirectly
benefit disadvantaged and capable high school students in the State; providing
for the membership, duties, compensation, and staffing of the Task Force;
requiring that the members be appointed by a certain date; requiring the Task
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