(a) Beginning with students in the 9th grade in the 2021–2022 school year, each school system shall implement a 9th grade tracker system to measure each student’s progress toward graduating on time, including credit accumulation and the number of semester core course failures during the first year of high school for students completing the 9th grade year.
(b) Each county board periodically shall provide a report to the school where the student is enrolled for further academic intervention to allow the student to graduate on time.
(c) On or before September 1, 2022, and each September 1 thereafter, each county board shall report to the Department the data collected under subsection (a) of this section on students in the 9th grade in the immediately preceding school year.
(d) On or before December 1, 2022, and each December 1 thereafter, the Department shall compile and submit a statewide report on information reported under subsection (c) of this section to the Accountability and Implementation Board and the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Division II - Elementary and Secondary Education
Subtitle 2 - Evaluation and Graduation of Students
Section 7-201 - Evaluation to Discover Learning Disabilities; Programs for Disabled Students
Section 7-202 - Minimum Reading Levels Required
Section 7-203 - Education Accountability Program
Section 7-203.1 - Grants for the Administration of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
Section 7-203.2 - Collection, Maintenance, and Analysis of Graduation Records
Section 7-203.3 - Assessments Administered in a Local School System
Section 7-203.4 - Comprehensive Support and Improvement Plans
Section 7-204 - Assessment of Testing and Measurement Programs
Section 7-205 - Promotion and Graduation of Students
Section 7-205.1 - High School Curriculum and Graduation Requirements
Section 7-205.2 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Instruction
Section 7-207 - State Merit Scholastic Awards Program
Section 7-208 - Maryland Seal of Biliteracy Act
Section 7-210 - Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Assessments