Queen Anne's County Board of Education approves five policies, curriculum renewals, contracts and purchases

The Queen Anne's County Board of Education on July 2 approved a package of policies, curriculum renewals, contracts and capital purchases, the board said during its open session.

The board voted to approve the human resources report and five board policies; unanimously approved one-year and multiyear instructional purchases and renewals for elementary and secondary programs; authorized a $1.2 million consortium food-service contract and approved a centralized surveillance server purchase for district camera storage. Board members recorded the approvals by voice vote during the meeting; no roll-call tallies were provided in the transcript.

The policy approvals included a rewritten homeless-students policy to align with McKinney-Vento guidance, amendments to the district policy on administering medication to students, updates to home-and-hospital teaching, a new student-registered-offender policy reflecting April 2024 state updates, and a new student-telehealth policy cited to the Maryland Education Article §4-143.

Board members also approved several curriculum and instructional purchases brought by district supervisors: - A one-year renewal of the elementary social studies program My World Interactive (Savvas) with a stated fiscal impact of $96,423.80 charged to the FY26 operating budget. - Licenses and materials for reading intervention programs (HMH Reading Interventions Code and Read180) with a fiscal impact of $59,665.73 from…