The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) is the school district that manages the public schools of Howard County, Maryland, USA. It is headquartered in Columbia. It operates under the supervision of an elected, eight-member Board of Education. Sydney L. Cousin served as superintendent until 2012, when he stepped down due to illness. Renee A. Foose is the current superintendent.
The current members of the Howard County Board of Education are Frank Aquino(Chairman), Brian Meshkin(Vice-Chairman), Ann DeLacy, Cynthia Vaillancourt, Ellen Flynn Giles, Sandra French, Janet Siddiqui, and Cole Rosenberg, the Student Member of the Board.
Howard County consistently earns high marks in school performance metrics such as test scores and graduation rates. It gets high percentages at all levels of the Maryland School Assessments. In 2007 Forbes magazine rated Howard County as one of the ten most cost-efficient school systems in the USA.
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