Budget pressures and rumors of litigation have caused a considerable rift between the County Council and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system. It is…
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Nothing to BOAST About
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Maryland politicians love to take credit for the state’s ranking by Education Week as having the best public schools in the nation. So what do…
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How the Counties Spend Your Money, Part Five
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Today, we examine public school spending and look at Montgomery County’s per capita budget in detail.In FY 2009, Maryland’s twenty-four public school districts received a…
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Dealing with Waivers
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By Marc Korman. On February 23rd the State Board of Education announced a process to allow school systems to receive a waiver from the requirement…
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Senator Nancy King (D-39) is a member of the Budget and Taxation Committee and served two terms on the Montgomery County Board of Education, including…
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Digging into Advanced Placement
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By Marc Korman. The Washington Post’s top notch education columnist, Jay Mathews, recently wrote about Advanced Placement Grade Reports. The reports give data behind the…
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MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast has written a memo to the Board of Education comparing MCPS to Fairfax County Public Schools on Advanced Placement (AP) exam…
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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…
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Maintenance of Effort is a Smart Law
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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…
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Montgomery Teachers Under Stress
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By Eric Luedtke. This spring, educators in Montgomery County and across the state participated in the TELL Survey, which sought to gauge the opinions of…