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Resident urges Board to pursue law-enforcement help for children 'going missing' from schools, says state hides K-6 withdrawal data
Summary
A Hagerstown resident told the board that Maryland is not reporting "code 50" withdrawal data for kindergarten through sixth grade and asked the board to include law-enforcement assistance for locating missing children in its 2026 legislative priorities; the board did not take formal action during the meeting.
At the start of public comment on Nov. 18, resident Caitlin Snodgrass told the Washington County Board of Education that thousands of children have been withdrawn from Maryland public schools and that the Maryland State Department of Education is withholding code-50 withdrawal data for younger children.
Snodgrass said the state reported about 11,000 missing students in grades 7'12 last year and that 215 of those were from Washington County; she said she…
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