Blueprint for Maryland's Future

For each of these episodes, I am being joined by a different education stakeholder per episode to share insights on how the reform plan is going for education and what we might be able to anticipate from state lawmakers in the coming year where education policy is concerned.

And I know I sound like a broken record, but as once again, another reminder to our audience members just to ground you, is the education reform plan that we are talking about is the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.

We call it the Blueprint for short, and the major points to remember are: it's a multi-billion dollar plan with an implementation layout that covers a little more than a decade.

The goal is to make Maryland a world-class pre-K through 12 education system by building out a bunch of components that are meant to bolster educational access and achievement for all students, regardless of certain barriers, things like mental, behavioral, economic, linguistic circumstances.

If you're here to learn, this system should be able to do it.

I, I will tell you, I've been in this role now for approximately five months, so you're probably wondering-

[laughs]

... well, how in the world did this guy get here? I am very happy to say that I did serve as a local school board member in the state of Maryland for eight years, really spent a lot of time on the ground as Blueprint was being rolled out and discussed.