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Speakers urge more classroom emergency supplies, credit for career programs and changes for national-board teacher pay
Summary
Public commenters requested (1) mandated classroom emergency kits and training to supplement school safety, (2) recognition of Center of Applied Technology South coursework toward graduation credits, and (3) action to address pay/eligibility inequities for national board certified teachers; a virtual speaker also asked for shorter school days.
Students, a teacher and a community member used the meeting's public-comment period to raise safety, curriculum-credit and compensation concerns.
Haley Dykeman, a senior at Glen Burnie High School, urged the board to seek an amendment to the 2018 Maryland Safe to Learn Act to increase funding for classroom emergency resources and training. Dykeman recounted a series of violent incidents in local high schools and said her survey of Glen Burnie teachers showed "62.7 percent of teachers lack a first aid kit in their classrooms." She…
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