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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *sb0786* |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE BILL 786 |
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| 8 | 8 | | F1 2lr2254 |
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| 9 | 9 | | CF 2lr2725 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Senators Carozza, Jennings, Eckardt, Simonaire, Salling, Hough, Cassilly, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Edwards, Ready, Hershey, Gallion, West, and Corderman |
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| 12 | 12 | | Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2022 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
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| 14 | 14 | | |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | |
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| 17 | 17 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | |
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| 19 | 19 | | Education – Public Schools – Curriculum Publication 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | (Curriculum Transparency and Publication Act) 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | FOR the purpose of requiring each public school to post the curriculum used for each course 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | taught in the school on the school’s publicly accessible website; requiring each county 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | board of education to ensure that public schools post the curriculum used for each 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | course taught in the school on the school’s publicly accessible website; and generally 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | relating to public school curricula. 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | |
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| 28 | 28 | | BY adding to 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Article – Education 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Section 4–141 11 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14 |
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| 35 | 35 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15 |
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| 36 | 36 | | |
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| 37 | 37 | | Article – Education 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 4–141. 17 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (A) IN THIS SECTION, “CURRICULUM ” MEANS: 18 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIA LS; 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES ; 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (3) INTERNET LINKS FOR , OR THE NAME OF , A TEXTBOOK; AND 21 2 SENATE BILL 786 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (4) COURSE SYLLABI . 1 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (B) (1) BEGINNING IN THE 2022–2023 SCHOOL YEAR , EACH PUBLIC 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | SCHOOL SHALL POST TH E CURRICULUM USED FO R EACH COURSE TAUGHT IN THE 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | SCHOOL ON ITS PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE. 4 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) NOT LATER THAN 60 DAYS AFTER THE CURRI CULUM FOR A 5 |
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| 58 | 58 | | COURSE IS APPROVED O R REVISED BY A PUBLI C SCHOOL, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | SHALL POST THE NEW O R UPDATED CURRICULUM ON ITS PUBLICLY ACCE SSIBLE 7 |
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| 60 | 60 | | WEBSITE. 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (C) EACH COUNTY BOARD SHALL ENSURE THAT EACH PUB LIC SCHOOL IN 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | THE COUNTY COMPLIES WITH THE REQUIREMENT S OF THIS SECTION. 10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | 1, 2022. 12 |
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