Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act retains funding for community schools, students from low-income families, multilingual learner services, and teacher collaborative time. The bill also invests in teacher recruitment, retention, and professional development.

Mixed Delivery Model Viability Act establishes a work group to ensure successful implementation of a mixed delivery model by examining barriers to private pre-K providers’ participation and identifying strategies to make it viable and desirable for private providers to participate.

Procurement - State Department of Education - Local Food Purchasing Program creates procurement processes and price preferences to bring more locally grown fruits and vegetables

Institutions of Higher Education - Admissions Standards - Prohibition on Consideration of Legacy Preference or Donor Preference bans the consideration of a student’s legacy status during the admissions process at Maryland’s public higher education institutions.

Public Higher Education - Communities of Interest - Targeted Recruitment and Outreach Efforts mandates that Maryland higher education institutions have a written policy encouraging targeted recruitment and outreach efforts to underrepresented groups.

Credit for All Language Learning (CALL) Act requires English as a Second Language (ESL) or English language learner courses taken at a public community college to transfer to any institution of higher education in the State, improving student’s course success and degree completion.

Public Schools - Active Shooter Safety Drills or Trainings - Requirements establishes procedures to help reduce the potential mental health impacts of active shooter drills on students through requiring age-appropriate drills and conversations about them, parent notification of the drills, and more.

Freedom to Read Act establishes a set of State Standards for Libraries to ensure that libraries cannot exclude materials from their catalogs because of the person who created the materials or remove materials from their catalogs because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. It also protects school and public library workers from action being taken against them for following these standards.

School Employee Antibias Training - Requirements requires the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for an anti-bias training program for school employees.

Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established creates the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program to provide funding for resources and services to eligible students with disabilities and their families who need legal, advocacy, and consultant services.