Education
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Attach Performance Metrics to All Future MCPS Budgets: Our Children’s Education Depends on Our Fiscal Prudence
Read more: Attach Performance Metrics to All Future MCPS Budgets: Our Children’s Education Depends on Our Fiscal PrudenceThe County Council, County Executive, and MCPS are placing its residents in a moral and financial bind. On the table, there appears to be a dialectical dilemma: our children’s future or fiscal prudence. However, an honest discussion regarding fully funding MCPS above and beyond historical trends demands that we resolve the following questions: How can…
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Turning Challenges Into Change: Why Montgomery County Needs MBLI Now More Than Ever
Read more: Turning Challenges Into Change: Why Montgomery County Needs MBLI Now More Than EverStarting something new is never easy—especially when it’s never been done before. As the first and only business-focused public charter school for middle school students in the state of Maryland, The MECCA Business Learning Institute (MBLI) Public Charter School was always destined to be more than just a school. It is a movement—a bold reimagining…
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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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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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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…