By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, the school board voted to forward Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s recommended capital budget to the county executive, who must consider it as part of his broader…
Taylor Capital Budget Series 2025
Cold Spring PTA Pushes Back on Montoya
By Adam Pagnucco. Due to both its hulking size and its controversial proposals (like using Crown HS as a holding school and closing Silver Spring International MS), Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s…
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s massive recommended Capital Improvements Program (CIP), which is his proposed six-year capital budget, is due for a vote by the Board of Education…
By Adam Pagnucco. In his capital budget briefing of the school board on Tuesday, Superintendent Thomas Taylor revealed that he wants to see a public-private partnership (P3) redevelop MCPS’s headquarters…
A Better Plan for MCPS’s Headquarters
By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I wrote about MCPS’s proposed $400+ million central office campus. The project, which uses land now occupied by the old Carver central office and the…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Five
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask. Part Two quantified huge in historical terms. Part Three looked at the details of…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Four
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask. Part Two quantified huge in historical terms. Part Three looked at the details of…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Three
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One examined Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s rationale for his huge capital budget ask. Part Two quantified huge in historical terms. (Yes, it’s huge, folks.) Now let’s look…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part Two
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has made a huge ask in his new recommended six-year capital budget. How big is it? And what’s in it? Let’s see for…
Taylor’s Huge Capital Ask, Part One
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor doesn’t believe in small things. Just look at his first recommended operating budget, which asked for one of the largest increases in MCPS…
