GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY TO ADDRESS MARYLAND’S SUPERINTENDENTS IN ANNAPOLIS TODAY

GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY TO ADDRESS MARYLAND’S SUPERINTENDENTS IN ANNAPOLIS TODAY



ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Martin O’Malley will address the state of Maryland’s public schools and the importance of maintaining historic investments in education today when he delivers remarks before all 24 Maryland public school superintendents.

“We are very fortunate in Maryland to have such a talented, committed group of superintendents, who aren’t content with simply running in place and defending our number one ranking in America for our public schools,” said Governor O’Malley. “They want, as do all of us, to be competitive globally and we can do that by protecting those priorities we share even when it is difficult to do so.”

Education Week Magazine ranked Maryland’s public schools number one in the nation. In the past three years, the O’Malley-Brown Administration has fully funded the Thornton Bridge to Excellence Plan – the first administration to do so – and invested $1 billion over a three-year period in school construction, a first in Maryland’s history. In an effort to build upon the system’s number one national ranking, the O’Malley-Brown Administration has set ambitious goals including increasing college and career readiness 25 percent by 2010, improving student achievement 25 percent by 2015, and increasing the number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math college graduates 40 percent by 2015.