By Adam Pagnucco. Last Thursday, MCPS leaders appeared before a joint meeting of the county council’s education and audit committees to discuss the findings of a recent inspector general report…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the school board released a less redacted version of the Jackson Lewis report, which details the circumstances around the promotion of accused sexual harasser Principal…
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Are You Ready for Bethany Mandel?
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By Adam Pagnucco. Four years ago, MoCo saw one of its wildest school board races of all time. (I wrote about it back then – here are links to Parts…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, the school board announced that it was releasing a less redacted version of a report by law firm Jackson Lewis on MCPS’s recent sexual harassment…
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Questions for MCPS
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By Adam Pagnucco. On September 28, the county council brought in then-Superintendent Monifa McKnight and Board of Education President Karla Silvestre for a public interrogation. I wrote about it at…
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School Board Apologizes
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By Adam Pagnucco. This morning, the school board released the comments of Board of Education President Karla Silvestre about MCPS’s recent sexual harassment and promotion scandal. Silvestre summarizes recent events,…
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By Adam Pagnucco. On Monday, I published questions about new MCPS Interim Superintendent Monique Felder’s background. Specifically, I discussed a controversy concerning her receipt of $6,000 in “honorariums” from a…
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By Adam Pagnucco. If you thought that the resignation of Superintendent Monifa McKnight meant an end to MCPS’s leadership issues, you thought wrong! That’s because the person the school board…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Early reaction to the resignation of MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight has begun to pour in. Much of the first batch of official quotes has already been summarized…
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McKnight is Out
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Monifa McKnight has resigned and Chief Operating Officer Brian Hull will now serve as acting superintendent. Statements from the school board and McKnight appear below. …