By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of MCPS’s layoff-free budget adjustments, I keep hearing the same question asked about MCPS leadership over and over: What were they thinking? First, let’s…
Budget and Taxes
MCPS Confirms No Teacher Layoffs
By Adam Pagnucco. In a message just sent to MCPS employees, MCPS has confirmed my analysis of its budget package as not containing layoffs. The school system now states that…
By Adam Pagnucco. After getting $31 million less from the county council than it requested, MCPS management raised the possibility of reductions in force (terminations) affecting “all employee groups” and…
Is the Party Over?
By Adam Pagnucco. Regular gains in revenues. Surging reserves. Easy money. There may be chaos in MCPS and acrimony between the county executive and the county council (what’s new?), but…
MCEA: No Layoffs but Furloughs Possible
By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) President Jennifer Martin has just released a video in which she states that while MCPS likely won’t implement layoffs, furloughs and other…
Do They Really Need to Do That?
By Adam Pagnucco. As this sudden and torturous budgetary upheaval in MCPS proceeds to its doom-laden conclusion, I keep hearing the same question from my sources: “Do they really need…
Superintendent Comments on School Staffing
By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier today, Interim Superintendent Monique Felder sent out a mass email commenting on MCPS’s adjustments to school staffing. In the email, she discusses “a one-student-per-class increase across…
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS is getting ready to implement draconian personnel measures, possibly including layoffs or furloughs. Such actions would harm morale, recruitment and retention in the school system and…
By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s start with this. There must not be layoffs in MCPS. Historically, MCPS has been the crown jewel of Montgomery County. Its excellence has been our primary…
By Adam Pagnucco. According to a memo sent out on Friday evening by Peter Moran, MCPS Chief of School Support and Well-Being, principals will receive information about staffing reductions at…