Education
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Omnibus Earmark for MoCo: “Equity Incubator” at the Universities at Shady Grove
Read more: Omnibus Earmark for MoCo: “Equity Incubator” at the Universities at Shady GroveThe rushed-through Federal Omnibus “Budget” Appropriation for federal fiscal year 2023 survived amendment votes in the United States Senate and is now headed to the United States House of Representatives. It will likely pass in current form, barring something unforeseen. The bill directs $1.7 trillion in spending for the fiscal year ending in September 2023…
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BOE Assigns a 100k Tax Lien Debtor to Fiscal Management Committee
Read more: BOE Assigns a 100k Tax Lien Debtor to Fiscal Management CommitteeUpdate 12/11/2022 – Reader tip provided info to include Rebecca Smondrowski’s federal lien in article. During the 2022 Board of Education campaign, parents and concerned community members took to twitter to share the financial issues they uncovered of school board candidate (now member) Grace Rivera-Oven. These revelations were of course ignored by the main local…
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Segregation Returns to MCPS
Read more: Segregation Returns to MCPSFrom 1872 to 1958, Montgomery County had a segregated school system. Segregation based only on one’s race. Unfortunately, and sadly ironically, under the guise of diversity and inclusion efforts, it has returned in 2022. The image below is simply shocking. Did you ever expect to see in the hallways of an MCPS school a sign directing…
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Benchmark LGQBT Curriculum
Read more: Benchmark LGQBT CurriculumOne of the additions to MCPS’s Benchmark Curriculum for 2022-23 was the inclusion of several books to further LGQBT. And though MCPS offers curriculum nights where you can drive to a central location and view the full curriculum, many parents do not have the luxury of doing this. MCPS has not provided any other mechanism…
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Bias evident in MCPS Media Review
Read more: Bias evident in MCPS Media ReviewAll books used in Montgomery County Schools, whether they are placed in the library as free reading material or as used as part of the curriculum, must undergo an evaluation and assessment. MCPS utilizes Regulation IIB-RA to outline how this process takes place. In short, this is how the process takes place: A teacher, media…