By Adam Pagnucco. It’s early 2027 and the new five-member school board majority gets down to work. LGBTQ+ curriculum materials are withdrawn. The system’s racial equity policies are scrapped as…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, the Board of Education released a statement on a sexual harassment report prepared by its contracted law firm, Jackson Lewis PC. While the board has…
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Are They School Systems? Or Banks?
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By Adam Pagnucco. In my five-part series on teacher salaries and my dissection of MCPS’s fund balance, I have studied the growing surpluses available to MCPS management. But it turns…
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Teachers Survey: MoCo Results
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By Adam Pagnucco. Maryland Matters recently published an article on a survey conducted by the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) of its members, most of whom are teachers. The results…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a letter dated today, Board of Education President Karla Silvestre updated the county council’s Education and Culture Committee (Will Jawando, Gabe Albornoz and Kristin Mink) on…
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Accountability Now
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By Adam Pagnucco. I hear this word over and over again. I hear it from education advocates. I hear it from labor. From elected officials. From progressives. From conservatives. And…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) went on the record opposing MCPS’s use of Jackson Lewis PC, which it characterizes as an “anti-worker law firm,”…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Very Important Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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MCPS Sticks with Jackson Lewis
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By Adam Pagnucco. On the same day that two county council members called for an inspector general takeover of MCPS’s investigation of allegations of sexual harassment, MCPS Board of Education…
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Landmarks of MoCo: Significant Events
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…