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Bill would preserve seven-member elected school board districts in Baltimore County despite county council expansion
Summary
Sen. Sidnor asked the Ways and Means Committee to report favorably on Senate Bill 656, which would create seven school board districts in Baltimore County using the county's current seven council districts and set a process for reapportionment after the 2030 census.
Senator Sidnor asked the Ways and Means Committee on March 27 to report favorably on Senate Bill 656, a local bill that would preserve a seven-member elected component of the Baltimore County Board of Education by creating school board districts separate from the county council districts.
Sidnor told the panel that Baltimore County currently elects seven board members from the county's seven councilmatic districts and that a recent county charter amendment expanded the county council from seven to nine seats beginning with the next election. He said the county council's change does not itself grant authority to increase the number of elected school board members and that the General Assembly retains that authority. "We no longer in Baltimore…
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