The Baltimore County Board of Education will add some new faces next year, put one member in a new seat and another in a familiar role.
However, many of the issues will remain the same.
Gov. Robert Ehrlich recently appointed Meg O?Hare, former PTA board and school improvement member, former president of the Parkville High School PTA, and current president of the Carney Improvement Association, to a five-year term. She is taking the at-large seat vacated by former school board President Thomas Grzymski.
Ehrlich also appointed H. Edward Parker Jr. to fill the seat left vacant by Luis Borunda, who resigned in April after accepting an appointment to become the Deputy Secretary of State for the state of Maryland. Parker also serves on the county?s Planning Board as the chairman of the committee that reviews capital improvements.
A retired principal of Sollers Point Technical High School, Parker previously was the supervisor for vocational-technical programs in Baltimore County Public Schools and also served as an adjunct instructor in electricity and electronics at Catonsville and Dundalk community colleges and in computer applications for the University of Maryland.
At a board meeting earlier this month, Donald Arnold ? in his 11th year on the school board ? was voted the new board president, a position he previously held for four years. Roger Jansen, appointed to the board in 2004, was elected vice president.
O?Hare said standardizing the curriculum and instruction across the county to ensure a quality education for every Baltimore County student is one of her goals ? as is reducing overcrowding.
