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MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity Book
Read more: MCPS Teacher Spreads Self Authored Nonbinary Identity BookAn MCPS teacher has written a book, titled Hang, The Girl. The Amazon description of the book states: In Hank, the Girl, Hank discovers she is a girl after believing she was a boy. At first, Hank worries what her classmates will think, but she soon realizes their love and friendship are unconditional. As her classmates…
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FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7th
Read more: FOIA Reveals Elrich Snubbed Jewish Community While Engaging Muslim Community after Oct 7thA FOIA of MCPS emails related to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel obtained by Parents Defending Education revealed that on October 16, 2023 Arwa Abde, Middle Eastern Liaison at the County Office of Community Partnerships, sent out an e mail inviting members of the Middle Eastern American Advisory Group to a…
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Petition to Change Gas Leaf Blower Law
Read more: Petition to Change Gas Leaf Blower LawA new petition has been created on Change.org to gather community support for an Amendment to the MoC0 Gas Leaf Blower Ban. In addition to reports from private businesses expressing the need to reduce the size of their workforce to accommodate the cost of this ban, there are also growing reports from HOAs and neighborhood…
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Despite NCAA changes MCPS Still Promotes Transgender Sports
Read more: Despite NCAA changes MCPS Still Promotes Transgender SportsOn February 6th, the NCAA announced that the Board of Governors updated its policy for transgender student-athletes. The changes were in response to an executive order by the Trump administration. The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student athletes assigned female at birth only. The President of NCAA stated: The NCAA is an…
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New MD Bill: Don’t use Grok to Mock Me!!
Read more: New MD Bill: Don’t use Grok to Mock Me!!Always on the hunt for potential mechanisms that might undermine their authority or persuade votes to question their service, MoCo Delegate Anne Kaiser has sponsored legislation in the General Assembly to: Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter’s voting decision; providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic…
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Board of Education Compensation: Part 3—Granting talented teenagers a sense of entitlement
Read more: Board of Education Compensation: Part 3—Granting talented teenagers a sense of entitlementDelegates Vogel and Charkoudian’s giveaway to their friends on the Board of Education includes a scholarship to the student member of the board (SMOB). SMOBs already receive a $25,000 scholarship, and Vogel-Charkoudian want to increase that to the lesser of a) the highest tuition + room + board within UMD and b) 80% of a…
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Natali announces fix for snow removal
Read more: Natali announces fix for snow removalAfter receiving around 8 inches of snow this week, receiving multiple complaints about slow snow removal, and being forced to close school for 3 days, Natali-Gonzalez has a decided to take a stand. One Wednesday, she gathered with representatives from CASA to announce that she will be introducing legislation that cancels all current snow removal…
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Legislative Achievements of Vice President Will Jawando
Read more: Legislative Achievements of Vice President Will JawandoWe are convinced that election to President and Vice President must be done simply on the basis of years of service and have nothing to do with successful enacting legislative priorities that benefit the county. Here is quick summary of the legislative achievements of the newly selected Vice President of the County Council, Will Jawando.…
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Hearing on BOE Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of Antisemitism
Read more: Hearing on BOE Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of AntisemitismOn December 5, 2024 several members of the public testified before the Board of Education against the BOE adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of Antisemitism, as the County Council did in 2022. Former MCPS parent Evelyn Frankl stated in her testimony, “In the context of Jews and Palestinians in the US, Jews are…