The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County will hear an update on the readiness of schools for the 2017-2018 school year at its next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, August 23, 2017. The meeting will be held in the Board Room at the Parham Building, located at 2644 Riva Road in Annapolis.
The update will include information from the offices of School Performance, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Studies & Programs, Student Support Services, and Human Resources, as well as from the school system’s Chief Operating Officer.
The 2017-2018 school year starts on Tuesday, September 5, with students in first through fifth, sixth, and ninth grades beginning classes. Nearly 82,000 students are projected to attend AACPS schools in the coming school year.
A complete 2017-2018 school year calendar is posted on the Anne Arundel County Public Schools website, www.aacps.org.
The Board will meet at 8:30 a.m. to vote to go into closed session, during which time it will discuss confidential matters as permitted by the Maryland Open Meetings Act including, but not limited to, legal advice, personnel, and negotiations. Closed session is not open to the public. The general session of the meeting, which is open to the public, starts at 10 a.m.
A complete agenda for the meeting accompanies this news release. More information on agenda items will be posted on the AACPS website in the Board Docs section under the Board of Education tab.
The general session of Wednesday’s Board meeting will be broadcast live on AACPS-TV, which can be found on Channel 96 on Comcast and Broadstripe, and Channel 36 on Verizon. High definition broadcasts can be seen on Channel 996 on Comcast, Channel 496 on Broadstripe, and Channel 1961 on Verizon. Rebroadcasts are scheduled for 7:00 p.m. the day after the meeting and 2:00 p.m. on subsequent Sundays.
The meeting can also be viewed live on the Internet here.
Archived videos of Board meetings are also posted online.