Behind the Blueprint
FROM THE LOCAL NEWS NETWORK"Behind the Blueprint" is the Local News Network's comprehensive report on the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, the 10-year, multi-billion-dollar plan to remake public education in the state. Included will be an overview of the Blueprint and its fiscal impact, along with stories related to its "five pillars": hiring more skilled and diverse teachers, improving college and career readiness, expanding access to pre-K, bolstering school funding and ensuring that the Blueprint actually works. "Behind the Blueprint" also includes summaries of the strengths, weaknesses and funding changes under the Blueprint plans of each of the state's 24 school districts. Project credits
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Will Maryland’s Blueprint for education work? An oversight board — and district officials — will be watching
Maryland plans to spend $16.6 billion through 2029, along with billions more after that, to improve its public schools. But will it work? State legislators created a seven-member oversight board to ensure it would. The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a…
‘Unrealistic’ and ‘Unfunded’: Maryland’s Blueprint for education has counties concerned
You might think spending $16.6 billion more in state funds from 2024 through 2029 — and billions more after that — would be enough to give Maryland a world-class education system. But that’s not what many people at the…
Maryland’s Blueprint to prepare students for college and careers – and counselors lead the way
Every school district across the state is hiring career counselors to make sure all high school students are prepared for their next steps after high school by the end of the 10th grade.
Maryland’s teacher shortage: Will the Blueprint’s plan for better pay, training do enough?
Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during the week, and her job sometimes requires her to put in hours on weekends, too. “I feel like teaching is one of those jobs where we go to work…
Maryland’s education ‘Blueprint’ struggles to expand pre-K
As a group of 4-year-old boys worked to create a towering building block castle in their colorful Montgomery County Public Schools pre-K classroom, Head Start teacher Molly Scherf reminded them it is important to build a strong foundation. The boys…
‘Behind the Blueprint’: A Local News Network project detailing Maryland’s education reform plan
The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a multi-billion dollar endeavor aimed at addressing concerns about the quality of public education in the state, is about to remake virtually every public school in the state. Here are the five pillars…
Blueprint or budget-breaker? No one knows how to pay for Maryland’s massive education reform
Maryland’s Democratic-led legislature passed the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future in 2021, vowing to pour billions of dollars into the state’s public schools.