Montgomery taxpayers league grills president of countywide parent group

Please note, the MCPS Secret Budget Meetings are held in secret. The public is not permitted to attend these meetings. The MCCPTA President's statements can not be verified by reviewing video or minutes of these meetings. MCCPTA and the Unions sign CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS in order to attend these meetings. The public will never, ever know what goes on at these budget meetings.

Gazette:  Members want $2.2 billion school budget spent efficiently

Only a handful of people from outside the school system take part as schools superintendent Joshua Starr draws up his budget.
Montgomery County Taxpayers League President Joan Fidler thinks more leaders of civic groups could be included to ensure efficiencies.
“It could be us,” Fidler said. “But it doesn’t have to be.”
On Thursday, the league grilled one of those people allowed inside Starr’s inner circle: Janette Gilman, president of the Montgomery County Council of Parent Teacher Associations. League members wanted to know just how involved she is when it comes to school system budget talks.
The MCCPTA president, along with a few other MCCPTA members, and leaders of the county’s three school-based unions are the only people outside of school system staff allowed in the private budget meetings before the superintendent’s request is released publicly. Not even school board members are included in these talks...