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Montgomery County Teachers’ Union Won’t Make Endorsement In Five-Way Board of Education Primary: MCEA endorsed incumbent Phil Kauffman in 2012 primary and made endorsements in busy 2014 primary season...
 
...Tom Israel, executive director of the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), confirmed the union’s representative assembly of about 130 members discussed a possible endorsement Wednesday night. The MCEA requires at least a 58 percent majority vote for any one candidate in order to provide that candidate with an endorsement.
The non-endorsement could be seen as a setback for incumbent Phil Kauffman, the two-term at-large member from Olney who garnered the MCEA’s endorsement in his 2012 primary run...