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Vacancy, Chair (chosen by President, Morgan State University)Appointed by Senate President: Joan Carter Conway
Appointed by House Speaker: Edith J. Patterson
Appointed by President, Morgan State University: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Student Services & Strategic Planning Branch, State Department of Education: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Center for School Safety: one vacancy
Holmes Hall, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2003. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Association of Boards of Education: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland Association of Community Colleges: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Maryland State Education Association: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland Association of Elementary School Principals: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland Parent Teacher Association: one vacancy
Appointed by Executive Director, Public School Superintendents Association of Maryland: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland Association of Pupil Personnel: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland School Counselor Association: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland School Psychologists' Association: one vacancy
Appointed by President, Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals: one vacancy
Appointed by Chief Executive Officer, Y of Central Maryland: one vacancy
Ex officio: Brian F. Frosh, Attorney General; Dennis R. Schrader, Secretary of Health; Lourdes R. Padilla, Secretary of Human Services; Sam. J. Abed, Secretary of Juvenile Services.
Staff: Claude E. Hitchcock
c/o Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251
(443) 885-3938
e-mail: claude.hitchcock@morgan.edu
In July 2016, the Task Force to Combat Habitual Student Truancy formed (Chapter 266, Acts of 2016).
The Task Force is to study and assess first how the structure and effectiveness of the State's truancy courts might be improved; and second, whether chronic student absenteeism influences student truancy rates.
Currently, local school systems track habitually truant students, those who are unlawfully absent for 20 percent, or more, of school days. The Task Force will identify best practices for recording and maintaining records of student absences and the appropriate time for notifying pupil personnel workers, when a student chronically is absent or habitually truant. To reduce such truancy, the Task Force will determine how State agencies could work collaboratively towards solutions. Further, the Task Force will consider the efficacy of requiring evening high school programs in each school system; changing the current admissions policies for alternative programs; expanding to all counties the Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program; and allowing school personnel to file with the court Child in Need of Assistance petitions. Finally, the Task Force will make recommendations on how best to combat habitual student truancy in Maryland.
Authorization for the Task Force ends June 30, 2018.
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