Applications of Research to Practice
A Right to Education - Teaching Maryland’s Detained and Committed Youth
Nina Riggs
Maryland Juvenile Services Education Program

Abstract
In 2022, the Maryland Juvenile Services Education Program (JSEP) became its own state local education agency. This education program ensures justice involve youth receive the same level of rigorous education and access to the same state standards as the other twenty-four counties in Maryland. In order to see this come to fruition, the JSEP Coordinator of Mathematics built a mathematics program that ensured every student has access to course appropriate mathematics instruction every day, with just in time supports to advance mathematical understanding.