Yesterday, the Examiner reported that State Superintendent of Schools Nancy Grasmick denied County Executive Ike Leggett’s request for reconsideration of the county’s $46 million fine. Here is exactly what Grasmick…
Education
Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Four
Interest is growing in Annapolis in sending teacher pensions down to the counties. Manno’s bill offers a way out. But we are very cautious about predicting a happy end to…
Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Three
Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has proposed a bill to use revenues from a permanent millionaire tax and combined reporting to support the state’s beleaguered teacher and employee pension funds. Yesterday,…
Can Teacher Pensions be Fixed? Part Two
Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has introduced a bill that would keep teacher pensions at the state level, but pay for them with an extension of the millionaire tax and combined…
Following are the remarks of Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) President Doug Prouty from the union’s recent legislative breakfast, in which he brands any handoff of teacher pensions to the…
MoCo Delegation Considers MOE Waiver Bill
The Montgomery County Delegation is now considering a local bill to waive the county’s Maintenance of Effort (MOE) penalty for FY 2010. Since the bill is co-sponsored by five of…
Delegate Roger Manno (D-19) has proposed an ambitious plan to fix the state’s troubled teacher pension program as well as to prevent pension liabilities from getting passed down to the…
Buried in a Washington Post article about the budget is this momentous passage: One way to lighten the state’s burden is to shift the rising cost of teacher pensions to…
Maintenance of Effort is a Smart Law
By Eric Luedtke. As a teacher, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some extraordinary children. But some of their parents have been just as extraordinary. Year after year, I’ve…
Montgomery College adjunct professors have voted in favor of their new contract by an overwhelming margin. Provided that the college’s Board of Trustees approves it, this will conclude the biggest…