- A. Outside Committee Assignments. The State Superintendent should serve in his or her official capacity only on committees directly concerned with education.
B. Power to Stay Action of County Boards.
- (1) The State Superintendent of Schools shall have the authority, either at the request of the President of the State Board of Education or on the State Superintendent’s own motion, to order a stay of any action taken by any local board of education, whether the local board's action is taken by way of rule, regulation, resolution, bylaw, or other order.
- (2) The stay shall be issued within 5 days of the date notice of the action is received by the State Superintendent or the State Board.
- (3) The stay shall not exceed 60 days in duration, unless the local board’s action has been appealed to the local board or the State Board, in which case the stay may remain in place until the State Board has issued a final decision on the appeal.
- (4) The stay may be dissolved at any time by the State Superintendent or the State Board.
Authority: Education Article, §§2-205, 2-303, 2-305, 5-301, 7-103, and 7-409, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: August 28, 1963
Regulation .03 adopted effective February 26, 1979 (6:4 Md. R. 278)
Regulation .04 adopted effective January 27, 1986 (13:2 Md. R. 138)
Chapter revised effective January 15, 1989 (15:27 Md. R. 3129)
Regulation .01B amended as an emergency provision effective July 23, 2025 (52:16 Md. R. 845); adopted permanently effective October 27, 2025 (52:21 Md. R. 1025)
Regulation .03 amended effective November 1, 1999 (26:22 Md. R. 1694)
Regulation .04 adopted effective March 12, 2007 (34:5 Md. R. 561)
Regulation .05 adopted effective October 3, 2011 (38:20 Md. R. 1203)
Regulation .06 adopted effective December 22, 2014 (41:25 Md. R. 1486)