Achievement Gap Questions that will not be answered on Monday, March 18th

Here is the Montgomery County Council's Staff Packet for the Council's Education Committee meeting with the BOE and MCPS staff on Monday, March 18, 2013 concerning the just released Council Report on the Achievement Gap in MCPS.  (Yes, this is the gap that Superintendent Jerry Weast has told the world he closed.  Apparently, it re-opened.)  

These are the 3 questions that Council staff have suggested that Councilmembers Valerie Ervin, Phil Andrews and Craig Rice should ask the BOE and MCPS staff.  Will the questions even be asked? If they are, will the Councilmembers take smoke and mirrors as answers?

(We know this topic won't be discussed.)

The complete Council Staff packet is shown below in Scribd.

Issue #1: Discuss with MCPS representatives how the school system establishes its funding priorities for closing the achievement gap and how MCPS' FY14 budget request reflects these priorities.


Issue #2: Ask MCPS representatives to describe the school system's explicit expectations for achieving progress in closing the achievement gap based on current trends and planned investments. 


Issue #3: Discuss with representatives of MCPS, Montgomery County Government, and community-based groups how they envision their roles working together to eliminate the achievement gap. 

  20130318_ED1 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland