By Adam Pagnucco. At his weekly media briefing yesterday, County Executive Marc Elrich addressed ongoing controversies at MCPS. After repeating his concerns about the initial summary report of MCPS’s sexual…
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By Adam Pagnucco. With questions continuing to swirl over MCPS’s sexual harassment scandal, in which top management promoted a principal despite knowing of an active investigation against him, the issue…
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A War for MCPS? Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Parts Three and Four, we described how an outside right wing group with national money could intervene effectively in our school board races. Now let’s look…
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A War for MCPS? Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Three, we covered how any national right-wing group must have a lot of money and a smart recruitment effort to take a shot at our…
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A War for MCPS? Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the possibility of right-wing outside groups playing in our school board races. Part Two listed the characteristics of those races. Some characteristics create challenges…
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A War for MCPS? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the premise of this series: a long string of local controversies is creating an opening for national conservative groups to play in our school…
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A War for MCPS? Part One
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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 LGBTQ+ curriculum materials are withdrawn.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. In an amazing response to Council President Evan Glass’s op-ed calling for more transparency and accountability in MCPS’s budget, the school board has cited its own demographics…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Montgomery County, the general election is often anti-climactic compared to the primary because Republicans have not won a partisan office in a district contained entirely within…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In school board elections, the two most important endorsements come from the Washington Post and the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), owner of the much-coveted Apple Ballot. …