Education reform efforts include a focus on college and career readiness standards. Here’s how each school district proposes to do it

The Maryland State Department of Education released an interim report last month to assess what hundreds of thousands of state students did months after graduating high school. The 154-page report from the American Institute of Research headquartered in Arlington, Va., shows that about 54% of Maryland’s students who graduated between 2017 to 2021 attended a two-year or four-year college or university the same year after completing four years of high school.