transparency
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Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 3—The Fallacy of Classroom Size
Read more: Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 3—The Fallacy of Classroom SizeIn his 2023 piece Reforming our school budgets, county executive candidate Evan Glass emphasizes the importance of funding and reducing classroom size as a primary pathway to improved school performance. As I talk with parents, educators and residents, there is common agreement on the need to ensure that the money we allocate to Montgomery County…
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Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 2—The Voting Record
Read more: Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 2—The Voting RecordIn Part 1 of this series we suggested that County Executive candidate Evan Glass bolster his demands for transparency by disclosing those MCPS union members and administrators involved in the Beidelman cover-up. In this post we look at Mr. Glass’s voting record on the MCPS budget. Mr. Glass made an emphatic case for transparency in…
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Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 1—Open MoCo’s Epstein Files
Read more: Glass’s MCPS Transparency Promise: Part 1—Open MoCo’s Epstein FilesCounty Executive candidate Evan Glass recently posted a call for MCPS transparency and a link to his piece in Bethesda Magazine Reforming our school budgets. That piece also focused on a demand for transparency in MCPS. In this series we’ll investigate just how sincere his demands are. The “Epstein Files” are all the rage, nowadays…
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MoCo Boost “Storytellers” Video Features Jose, Is Fully in Spanish, and Doesn’t Confirm If Recipient is an American Citizen
Read more: MoCo Boost “Storytellers” Video Features Jose, Is Fully in Spanish, and Doesn’t Confirm If Recipient is an American CitizenA brief follow-up here on MoCo’s ongoing “Boost” UBI (partly paid for by you, the hardworking taxpayer or you, the business owner, or you, the public school teacher) that caught my eye as I went back to the county’s MocoBoost.org website to see if new data or – gasp- an actual report on the efficacy…
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Best Place to Live?!?!
Read more: Best Place to Live?!?!Today the County Council celebrated a published ranking by Fortune that put Silver Spring as “The Best Place to Raise a Family“. Given the barrage of crime and fleeing retail this is a shocking result. It was only a few months ago that the County Council was handing out free cameras and imposing curfews for…
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The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and Beyond
Read more: The Takoma Park City Machine – How Takoma Park Uses Tax Dollars to Press Forward an Ideological Agenda to MoCo, Maryland and BeyondAlways follow the money and the influencers. Oh, and the 501c3s, c4s, etc. The City of Takoma Park’s influence on MoCo government policy has been covered here before but a quick review of the 501c3 non-profit Old Takoma Business Association’s (OTBA) website provides more visual examples of what this tiny town (population 17,500) does with…
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OIG: Where Talented Investigators Do a Mediocre Job
Read more: OIG: Where Talented Investigators Do a Mediocre JobClean Slate MoCo and other opposition outlets hold paramount the responsibility and accountability for the county’s elected, appointed, and shadow leadership. Not everyone is comfortable taking the opposition outlets seriously, and for them there is the county’s Office of the Inspector General. The OIG is tasked with the following (source): Review the effectiveness and efficiency…
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Francis Scott Key Bridge – Wes Moore Timeline Leaves Questions
Read more: Francis Scott Key Bridge – Wes Moore Timeline Leaves QuestionsFirst and foremost, our sincere prayers are with the families of the victims of this event. And not for one second did we ever doubt that our first responders would turn their backs on an emergency. They are like buffalo – they face the storm straight on. However, we are a bit, shall we say…
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Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire Answers
Read more: Released: Apple Ballot Questionnaire AnswersWellllll, since the Apple endorsed candidates will not be transparent and release the answers they provided to the Apple Ballot Questionnaire and since MCEA will not release the answers the candidates provided…..we will. This of course does not cover any additional interviews the candidates took part in, what they might have been asked, and how…
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MCPS Budget: As Transparent as Glass
Read more: MCPS Budget: As Transparent as GlassIn an op-ed piece on MoCo 360, Council Member Evan Glass called for more transparency in how the school system uses the money we lavish upon it—voluntarily or otherwise. Unfortunately…the process for distributing $3 billion across the school system is not transparent. True, but not entirely true. We have some examples of some problematic school…