Governor Hogan recently announced 151 appointments to various boards and commissions in the State. Included in these appointments, are the Governor’s two members of the Blueprint for Maryland Future’s Accountability and Implementation Board Nominating Committee. The presiding officers of the General Assembly announced their appointments to the Nominating Committee two weeks ago.
The Governor’s appointments include:
- Edward Root, Ed.D., who served as a member and chair of the Maryland State Board of Education and the Allegany County Board of Education. He is a retired professor and former Dean of Education for Frostburg State University.
- Rose Li, Ph.D. operates her own consulting company and also runs the Li Educational Foundation. She has served on the Maryland State Board of Education since 2016, and is stepping down at the end of June when her term expires.
Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) appointed Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s), chair of the Senate’s Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, and Shanaysha Sauls, the president and CEO of the Baltimore Community Foundation, for the nominating committee.
House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) chose Franchesca Brown, principal of Woodmoor Elementary School in Baltimore County, and Cheryl Bost, the president of the Maryland State Education Association, the largest teachers union in the state.
The nominating committee will identify nine prospective appointees to the AIB, an independent, seven-member panel that will oversee the implementation of a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar education reform plan. Hogan will select seven of the candidates as appointees to the board, subject to Senate confirmation.
Once established, the Accountability and Implementation Board will be responsible for developing a statewide comprehensive plan by February 2022 to guide reform and approve county-level implementation education reform plans. The board also has the power to withhold 25% of new state funding from counties each fiscal year until the board approves a county’s progress toward implementing reform.
A list of appointments can be found here.
