Board of Education
District 3 Board of Education candidate Karen Smith is blasting At-Large Board of Education candidate Lisa Lloyd for distributing a flyer that misrepresents her positions. And because the flyer lacks…
On the School Board Races
By Laura Berthiaume. I am not up for election in 2010. Thank goodness. I did not have to campaign in over 50 plus days of 90 degree plus heat, my…
Berthiaume Takes on Weast, Post
In an incredible op-ed in the Washington Post, Board of Education Member Laura Berthiaume publicly calls out both MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast and the newspaper itself. Here’s an excerpt: In…
MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast asked for and received authorization from the Board of Education to sue the county if the County Council cuts the system’s budget below the level proposed…
Pension Surprise Wrong for Montgomery County
By Patricia B. O’Neill, President, Montgomery County Board of Education. Last week, in a surprising move, the Maryland Senate voted to transfer hundreds of millions in teacher pension costs from…
MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast sent a memo to the Board of Education and an email to MCPS staff on Friday indicating his intention to cut 252 classroom positions in the…
And so it has begun. MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast has fired the first shot in what may be his last and greatest battle: the fight over the Fiscal Year 2011…
County Council Member Marc Elrich, a former 5th grade teacher at MCPS for many years, offered the following comments about the county’s school funding conflict with the state.##### The State…