Education
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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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Board of Education Compensation: Part 2—Nobody needs a full-time BoE
Read more: Board of Education Compensation: Part 2—Nobody needs a full-time BoEIn part 1 of this series we reviewed the historical narrative for granting full-time pay to MCPS Board of Education members. The overarching theme for the pay increase is that the board members are doing full-time work for part-time pay. Here is a map of the counties in the DC region. The ones shaded in…
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Board of Education Compensation: Part 1—At MCPS, friends don’t let friends make less than $124,000
Read more: Board of Education Compensation: Part 1—At MCPS, friends don’t let friends make less than $124,000MoCo delegates Lorig Charkoudian and Joel Vogel have introduced MC 7-25, which provides for the following: a) MCPS Board of Education members get pay raises to $124,000/year starting December 2026 from the current $25,000/year (BoE president gets $10,000 more); b) the student member of the board is entitled to 80% of that $124,000 to be…
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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…
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Black and Brown families, address your inequities with the teachers’ union, not the superintendent
Read more: Black and Brown families, address your inequities with the teachers’ union, not the superintendentAn October piece in MoCo 360 had a headline “MCPS’s Black and brown community presses [MCPS Superintendent Thomas] Taylor on educational inequities.” At this meeting, concerned parents were looking for solutions to the festering student performance allegedly attributable to race. According to the article, one parent asked if MCPS would allow students to switch schools…
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MCEA Tax Filing
Read more: MCEA Tax FilingJust because we were curious, we decided to take a peek at the MCEA tax filing for 2023. Part VII of the form 990 covers the Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, Highest Compensated Employees, and Independent Contractors. Section A lists Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest Compensated Employees. In the filing MCEA…
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Board of Education Predictions
Read more: Board of Education PredictionsIt’s often said that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. What does that mean for the board of education? Apple ballot endorsed candidates have shown feckless, fearful, and obedient behavior in office. Time after time, member after member. From fear of making an independent decision during the pandemic to the whiplash of…
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MCPS Says There is Still a “Critical Shortage” of Speech Pathologists in Discussion Between Longview Elementary Community / Parents, MCPS Office of Special Education
Read more: MCPS Says There is Still a “Critical Shortage” of Speech Pathologists in Discussion Between Longview Elementary Community / Parents, MCPS Office of Special EducationBack in April, 2023, the local NBC4 / Washington DC affiliate published an I-Team exclusive on the state of special education in area county schools. Overall, what the I-Team discovered was that the state of special education in and around Washington, DC was not in a good place for parents, students, or over-worked school staff…
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With Stewart, Ortman-Fouse, and Mink, it’s about control; With Diaz, it’s about compassion
Read more: With Stewart, Ortman-Fouse, and Mink, it’s about control; With Diaz, it’s about compassionPhotojournalism is an amazing feature of the modern age. Starting with the Civil War, American photojournalists have been capturing events military and civilian, lives wealthy and poor. They have been implanting into our collective consciousness jolting perspectives and immortalizing key moments. Here are two iconic photographs I curated from My Modern Net. Migrant field worker…
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Lynn Harris wants to bus kids away from local schools
Read more: Lynn Harris wants to bus kids away from local schoolsThe elephant in the room that has not been discussed this Board of Education election season is MCPS upcoming mega boundary study. Starting in January MCPS will begin a boundary study which includes 19 high schools and 31 middle schools. This represents 2/3’s of the County’s high schools and their feeder middle schools. This is,…