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The Maryland State Board of Education announced Tuesday night that it would extend the contract for Superintendent Karen B. Salmon for a year, as state schools respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
The board met in a closed session teleconference on Tuesday afternoon.
A week earlier, the board聽 as she led the public school systems鈥� response to the novel coronavirus.
Salmon had been set to retire June 30.
The board is also ending a national search for a new superintendent, citing 鈥渦nprecedented business conditions nationwide.鈥�
The board did not set a date to resume the search, .
Maryland鈥檚 public school systems remain聽聽in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
