Blueprint Basics

The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Act is legislation that codifies into law the recommendations made by the Kirwan Commission after an extensive study of best practices in high performing educational systems around the world. The Blueprint focuses on five policy areas.

  • Early Childhood Education

  • High-Quality and Diverse Teachers and Leaders

  • College and Career Readiness Pathways

  • More Resources to Ensure All Students are Successful

  • Governance and Accountability (For links to past AIB meetings including information about many of the topics and speakers, see below.)

It includes funding, remediation and oversight. Each school system is responsible for providing education for students including easily available academic support as soon as the need occurs, eliminating moving students on before they are prepared for the next level. 

The Blueprint creates an important new state agency, The Accountability and Implementation Board to oversee the transformation of the State Department of Education, the twenty-four school districts, and the vast array of related institutions. This Board has the authority to ensure that school districts are implementing each policy area and achieving the desired results. They will receive regular detailed reports on the performance of each entity and are obligated to make all reports available to the public. 

These reports will be the primary basis for policy analysis work of WCG-MD. Where progress is achieved, we will applaud their success. Where shortcomings are identified, constructive recommendations will be offered. The importance of this work to the future well-being of our kids cannot be overstated. Full implementation of the Blueprint will deliver great careers and bright futures. Failure will result in expanding dependency and limited futures. Failure is not an option.

Accountability Implementation Board Meetings

For links to past AIB meetings including information about many of the topics, materials and speakers, click here This index is complete to September 21, 2022. Updates will be posted as soon as some technical issues have been solved.