Appointed by Governor: Linda M. Carter; Sheryl Brissett Chapman; Paula D. Fisher; M. Kathleen Gardiner; Timothy T. Griffith; Frank J. Kros; Karen T. Lynch; James P. McComb.
Appointed by Senate President: C. Anthony Muse; one vacancy.
Appointed by House Speaker: Stephen W. Lafferty; Todd L. Schuler.
Ex officio: T. Eloise Foster, Secretary of Budget & Management; Nancy S. Grasmick, Ph.D., State Superintendent of Schools; Barbara Y. DiPietro, designee of Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene; Brenda Donald, Secretary of Human Resources; Donald W. DeVore, Secretary of Juvenile Services; Dolores Briones, Executive Director, Governor's Office for Children; Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender.
Staff: Shelley L. Tinney
c/o Governor's Office for Children
301 West Preston St., Suite 1502, Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 767-2547; 1-877-MD YOUTH (639-6884) (toll free)
e-mail: stinney@goc.state.md.us
fax: (410) 333-5248; tty: (410) 333-3098
Final Report to Governor & General Assembly due Dec. 1, 2008.
In July 2007, the Task Force to Study Group-Home Education and Placement Practices was authorized (Chapter 333, Acts of 2007). For children in out-of-home placement in State-licensed programs, the Task Force is to study current practices both for education and placement.
Authorization for the Task Force exends to June 30, 2009.