MCPS
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The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice Illusion
Read more: The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice IllusionThere are a three commonplace events that make me pause and feel how fortunate I am to be an American. One of them is when buying paper towels and toilet paper from Costco. It’s difficult to find a more effective combination of mass production, mass consumption, voluntary exchange, impeccable quality control, and a large corporation…
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A Radical Maoist Activist Keeps Popping Up in the Annual MCPS ‘K-12 Student AAPIHM Poster Art Contest’
Read more: A Radical Maoist Activist Keeps Popping Up in the Annual MCPS ‘K-12 Student AAPIHM Poster Art Contest’The Asian Pacific American Student Achievement Action Group (APASAAG) appears to be an in-house Asian-American Student Group at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). For four years now, it has sponsored a poster art contest for K-12 students at MCPS. Other co-sponsors of the contest are noted as: the MCPS Department of Partnerships, the Calvin J. Li…
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Take Action: Change MCPS Elections
Read more: Take Action: Change MCPS ElectionsFollowing our explainer about the Board of Education’s illegitimate at-large elections, I received additional information on the matter from Delegate Marc Korman (D-Montgomery County). In addition to House Bill 0655 introduced by Delegate Brian M. Crosby (D-St. Mary’s), our very own MoCo House delegation recently introduced HB0380 to mandate district voting for the BoE’s district…
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MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing body
Read more: MCPS Board of Education: MoCo’s most illegitimate governing bodyEmployees using MCPS credit cards for suspiciously personal use; secretive policy meetings; a proposed 10% tax hike to fund a school system with no performance improvements in return; capricious boundary changes. There are lots of reasons that people are upset with the Board of Education, but I fail to see the need for a rumpus.…
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The Property Tax Hike Rebellion
Read more: The Property Tax Hike RebellionLet’s talk about the 10% increase in property tax (aka, “10 cent revenue enhancement”) supposedly to fund MCPS. Montgomery County demographics are largely Democrats, and much of the workforce is in government, contracting, and hospitality industries. Many would ordinarily support paying more for the schools. (Not to diminish the real burden this places on retirees…
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The MCPS Budget Numbers They Don’t Want You To See
Read more: The MCPS Budget Numbers They Don’t Want You To SeeWith budget discussions well underway, the hot topic is additional funding for Montgomery County Public Schools. Sparked by a controversial proposal to raise property taxes by 10% to provide the additional funding, the unions and union backed politicians are out in full force advocating for it being a necessity. Their argument is that MCPS is…
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CM Albornoz Showcases Radical Maoist “Activist” Portrait in E-mail Post Bragging About Student-Created Pilot “APIDA” Course Within MCPS
Read more: CM Albornoz Showcases Radical Maoist “Activist” Portrait in E-mail Post Bragging About Student-Created Pilot “APIDA” Course Within MCPSMontgomery County Councilmember Gabe Albornoz’s (Democrat, At-Large) latest e-mail update or “bulletin” to constituents (all 1.1 million of us, being that he’s “At-Large”) had the intriguing header “Focusing on Community Priorities” (see below). CM Albornoz has been in public office since 2018. On his “About” Council government page he claims: Gabe is truly “at-large,” having…
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MCPS Needs Consistency in What Schools/Principals Deem Worthy of Being an “Alert” Communication to Parents
Read more: MCPS Needs Consistency in What Schools/Principals Deem Worthy of Being an “Alert” Communication to ParentsMontgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) are the largest public school system in the state of Maryland, as they frequently remind us. Currently at 210 schools, there are many unique school environments (neighborhoods, surrounding roads, etc) and risks for each of these physical campuses. MCPS does have a pretty robust “Alert MCPS” opt-in system for parents…
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MCPS ignores their own book evaluation regulation (for some books)
Read more: MCPS ignores their own book evaluation regulation (for some books)Previously covered in an article written by Jessica Chasmar for Fox News, as well as touched upon in an article on CleanSlateMoCo, three books submitted to MCPS for assessment under their required policy for library and instructional materials received eye-opening reviews in November of 2022. The books, published by Heroes of Liberty, provided an account…