What Ike Leggett should do is get the Montgomery County Board of Education to fire Jerry Weast rather than threaten legal action. If any consequences need to occur over the maintenance of effort fiasco it should be toward Mr. Weast because of the letter that he sent to the State Board condemning the County response to the situation. When the County is in a difficult situation, a fiscal crisis the likes this County has not seen in over 3 decades, it requires the support and unity and cooperation from all agencies/departments as well as Employees to get passed the crisis. I really wish Janis would publish the letter Mr. Weast sent to the State Board so people could see what disruption and manipulation Mr. Weast provoked in that letter. He clearly does see or respect the full consequences of his potential suggestions to the State Board. We are still in the grip of a major economic meltdown; more budgetary deficits are on the horizon. I expect this year will exceed 300 million dollars and I suspect the Employees as well as the MCPS will suffer as a consequence. These are difficult times and we need unity not dissention and fiscal mismanagement as Mr Weat has promoted in recent years. Janice please post the Weast letter. I think it completes the story. Cary Lamari
I'd like to know too what that letter mentioned. From what I read of the link above, this really has no bearing on what Dr. Weast did or did not say. In fact, my understanding is that Weast worked closely with the county council on the budget process on requesting the waiver. So I thought that unity between the council and the BOE/weast was not at all an issue.
The letter from Superintendent Jerry Weast to State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick is mentioned in the Attorney General's Opinion on page 11 of the document.
What Ike Leggett should do is get the Montgomery County Board of Education to fire Jerry Weast rather than threaten legal action. If any consequences need to occur over the maintenance of effort fiasco it should be toward Mr. Weast because of the letter that he sent to the State Board condemning the County response to the situation.
ReplyDeleteWhen the County is in a difficult situation, a fiscal crisis the likes this County has not seen in over 3 decades, it requires the support and unity and cooperation from all agencies/departments as well as Employees to get passed the crisis. I really wish Janis would publish the letter Mr. Weast sent to the State Board so people could see what disruption and manipulation Mr. Weast provoked in that letter. He clearly does see or respect the full consequences of his potential suggestions to the State Board. We are still in the grip of a major economic meltdown; more budgetary deficits are on the horizon. I expect this year will exceed 300 million dollars and I suspect the Employees as well as the MCPS will suffer as a consequence. These are difficult times and we need unity not dissention and fiscal mismanagement as Mr Weat has promoted in recent years. Janice please post the Weast letter. I think it completes the story.
Cary Lamari
I'd like to know too what that letter mentioned. From what I read of the link above, this really has no bearing on what Dr. Weast did or did not say. In fact, my understanding is that Weast worked closely with the county council on the budget process on requesting the waiver. So I thought that unity between the council and the BOE/weast was not at all an issue.
ReplyDeleteThe letter from Superintendent Jerry Weast to State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick is mentioned in the Attorney General's Opinion on page 11 of the document.
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