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Committee moves several regulatory items forward: graduation waiver for foster/homeless students; infant/toddler and family childcare rule updates
Summary
The committee recommended adopting a graduation-waiver amendment extending waiver eligibility for foster/homeless students who enter in junior year, approved permission to publish infant/toddler brochure distribution and family childcare republishing, and placed the foster/homeless adoption in the consent agenda.
MSDE presented a group of regulatory items and asked the Education Policy Committee to recommend permission to publish or adoption where already published.
Mary Gable asked the committee to adopt a regulation change to COMAR 13A.03.02.12 to extend the waiver that allows students in foster care or who are homeless entering a local school system in their junior year to be granted a waiver from certain locally established graduation requirements. MSDE reported the amendment had been published and received no comments; the committee voted to recommend adoption and place the item on the consent agenda.
Dr. Shana Cook presented amendments to COMAR chapters related to the Maryland Infants and Toddlers program and to family childcare/nonpublic nursery school regulations (COMAR 13A.15 series). MSDE said families with children under age 3 must receive MI&T information at least once per year and MSDE will provide a brochure to providers to assist with distribution. Staff also sought permission to republish minor corrections to family childcare regulations to clarify definitions, operational requirements, inspection standards, administrative hearings, and public records to better support implementation. MSDE noted statutory updates (House Bill 770; Maryland Code education citation referenced in the presentation) that expanded pathways for family childcare providers.
The committee voted to recommend adoption of the foster/homeless graduation waiver (to consent agenda) and recommended permission to publish/republish the infant/toddler and family childcare amendments to proceed through the standard promulgation steps.
What’s next: the adopt/permission items will be placed on the full State Board consent agenda or proceed to formal publication and comment as required by the Administrative Procedure Act.
