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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="6-128" title_number="6" title_name="Teachers and Other Personnel" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Personnel Matters">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before January 1, 2025, the Department shall establish and maintain a Maryland Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity Dashboard.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Dashboard shall include demographic information and key data points regarding:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Certificated and noncertificated personnel in public schools; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Prospective educators within teacher preparation programs throughout the State who are participating in teacher internships.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Dashboard may not include any demographic information that could be used to identify specific individuals.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any demographic that is less than 5% of the relevant population may be reported simply as “&lt; 5%”.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before December 1, 2024, and each December 1 thereafter, each county board shall report to the Department demographic and job status information on educators employed by, and teacher interns placed in, the public schools within the jurisdiction of the county board during the previous school year.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each county board shall report the information required under paragraph (1) of this subsection disaggregated by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>School;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Gender;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Race;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Ethnicity;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Average length of service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Status on the career ladder established under § 6–1002 of this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Number of educators hired during the reporting period; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Attrition rates of educators during the reporting period.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
