By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of a report by the county’s Office of Inspector General on problems in MCPS’s background checks on its employees, one of my readers raised…
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Grading Thomas Taylor, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described how I reached out to my source network to get their grades on MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s first year. Today, we will begin hearing…
Grading Thomas Taylor, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor, who has completed his first year in his current position, has been a busy man. Just look at the district’s boundary studies, its…
By Adam Pagnucco. In a new report sure to attract massive public interest, Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has found that MCPS is not monitoring criminal histories of all its…
Beidleman Appeals His Firing
By Adam Pagnucco. Former MCPS Principal Joel Beidleman, who was at the center of a scandal that brought down former Superintendent Monifa McKnight and cost taxpayers more than $2 million,…
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, I broke the news that MoCo’s multifamily building permits had crashed from hundreds of units per quarter down to 8 units in 2024’s fourth quarter and…
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the topic of whether MCPS students and staff feel safe at school. Part Two looked at racial data of students and staff. Part Three…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Renters Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit financed in part by county government, has sent out an email blasting the Rockville City Council for refusing to…
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, I have been writing about the eight billion dollar war for control of the county government’s pension and retiree health care funds. The war has already…
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the topic of whether MCPS students and staff feel safe at school. Part Two looked at racial data of students and staff. Part Three…