By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has made a huge ask in his new recommended six-year capital budget. How big is it? And what’s in it? Let’s see for…
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Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor doesn’t believe in small things. Just look at his first recommended operating budget, which asked for one of the largest increases in MCPS…
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MCPS’s Health Insurance Headache
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of the biggest priorities in MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s first recommended operating budget was plugging a growing hole in the district’s health insurance program. For years,…
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By Adam Pagnucco. District 6 County Council Member Natali Fani-Gonzalez has written her colleagues on the council’s Education and Culture Committee (Chair Will Jawando, Gabe Albornoz and Kristin Mink) with…
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What’s Your MCPS Region?
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By Adam Pagnucco. This year, the two biggest stories in MCPS (along with the problem-plagued background check program) are the boundary studies and the academic programs analysis. The former are…
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By Adam Pagnucco. School construction seems to make no one happy. If folks don’t get their project into MCPS’s school construction queue, they’re unhappy. If they do, the project takes…
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Taylor Revokes an NDA
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By Adam Pagnucco. Back in May, I revealed that MCPS had been using non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to protect information distributed in some of its activities. At the time, I reported: *****…
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How MoCo Has Changed Since 2000
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By Adam Pagnucco. One of my favorite offices in county government is the county council’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO). Staffed by ace analysts, it is the county’s think tank…
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ICE Activity Near Eastern Middle School
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By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, reports have been circulating in social media about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Montgomery County. Most of these reports have not been confirmed. …
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By Adam Pagnucco. Board of Education Member Julie Yang, who is running for the County Council District 1 seat being vacated by county executive candidate Andrew Friedson, has claimed that…