See also: List of school districts in Maryland, List of high schools in Maryland, and Arts and culture of Maryland Memorial Chapel at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland's flagship university UMBC mons and Qu
Education Week ranked Maryland in its nationwide 2009–2013 Quality Counts reports.[citation needed] The College Board's 9th Annual AP Report to the Nation also ranked Maryland first.[citation needed] Primary and secondary education in Maryland is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education, which is hequartered in Baltimore. The highest educational
official in the state is the State Superintendent of Schools, who is appointed by the State Board of Education to a four-year term of office. The Maryland General Assembly has given the Superintendent and State Board autonomy to make educationally related decisions, limiting its influence on the day-to-day functions of public education. Each county and county-equivalent in Maryland has a local Board of Education charged with running the public schools in that particular jurisdiction.
The bud for education was $5.5 in 2009, representing about 40 percent of the state's general fund. Maryland has a bro range of private primary and secondary schools. Many of these are affiliated with various religious sects, including parochial schools of the Catholic Church, Quaker schools, Seventh-day ventist schools, and Jewish schools. In 2003, Maryland law was changed to allow for the creation of publicly funded charter schools, although the charter schools must be approved by their local Board of Education and are not exempt from state laws on education, including ive ing laws.
In 2008, the state led the entire country in the percentage of students passing vanced Placement examinations. 23.4 percent of students ed passing gres on the AP tests given in May 2008. This marks the first year that Maryland ed this honor. Three Maryland high schools (in Montgomery County) were ranked among the top 100 in the country by US News in 2009, based in large part on AP test scores. Colleges and universities See also: List of colleges and universities in Maryland
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