Contact: Debra Garner, 443.433.3644
January 12, 2012, Annapolis, MD…Maryland’s educators reacted
with pride and satisfaction to today’s announcement that Education Week magazine
has ranked Maryland’s public schools #1 in the nation for the fourth
consecutive year. Maryland received high rankings on a range of measures,
including K-12 achievement, school finance, and teacher quality, accountability,
and support.
“In
Maryland, the success of our students remains our number one priority whether
our economy is thriving or recovering,” said Clara Floyd, president of the
Maryland State Education Association. “We all must do our part to provide a
great public school for every child, and I am proud of our educators, parents,
and community leaders who have worked as a team to achieve the results we are
celebrating today. I am also deeply appreciative of the historic investment in
our schools that so many of our elected officials have championed. But to
continue to move our top-ranked schools forward, it is imperative that we work
together to repair Maryland’s broken maintenance of effort law and safeguard
the local school funding that is essential to our students’ success and our
status as a national leader in education.”