Hartings elected president of Maryland State Board of Education

A former Washington County Board of Education member will be the next president of the state school board.

The Maryland State Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously elected Justin Hartings as the board's next president, state education officials announced in a news release.

Hartings was appointed to the state school board by Gov. Larry Hogan in June 2017.

"I'm really excited," he said Tuesday evening in a phone interview. "I think we have a lot of big challenges ahead of us in the next year."

One will be to implement changes following recommendations about education funding formulas and accountability measures coming from the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, or Kirwan Commission, in the near future, he said...

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