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…
MCPS
By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, the school board posted a two-page letter to the county executive, the county council, the unions and two state legislators about its sexual harassment investigation…
A War for MCPS? Part Four
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…
A War for MCPS? Part Three
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…
A War for MCPS? Part Two
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…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last spring, MoCo taxpayers witnessed a spectacle they had not seen in years: an open battle over the school budget pitting the county council against the school…
A War for MCPS? Part One
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 LGBTQ+ curriculum materials are withdrawn.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…
By Adam Pagnucco. Minutes ago, the Board of Education released a statement on a sexual harassment report prepared by its contracted law firm, Jackson Lewis PC. While the board has…
Top Stories: August 2023
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in August 2023, ranked by page views. 1. Jawando Takes Money from Anti-Union Law Firm 2. Luedtke and…
Are They School Systems? Or Banks?
By Adam Pagnucco. In my five-part series on teacher salaries and my dissection of MCPS’s fund balance, I have studied the growing surpluses available to MCPS management. But it turns…