Board of Ed Prohibits Public from Commenting on Renewal of Jack R. Smith's Contract

As the Parents' Coalition reported last week, Superintendent Jack R. Smith's contract has actually not been renewed.  The Board of Education voted to enter into negotiations with him for a new contract, but no actual contract existed yet.

Today, we see that the Board of Education is now poised to vote on a new contract for Jack R. Smith, but the Board of Education doesn't want any public comment on the Superintendent's Contract renewal.

The Board of Education has set the renewal of  Superintendent Jack R. Smith's contract for a vote on Thursday, February 27, 2020, during a WORKSESSION.  Worksessions of the Board of Education do not permit public comments. 

The Board of Education just had a regular business meeting yesterday.  They could have put the renewal of the Superintendent's contract on the Agenda for that regular meeting and that would have allowed members of the public to speak during public comment.  

The proposed new contract has not been made public prior to the Thursday Worksession. 

Clearly, the Montgomery County Board of Education does not want to hear from the public with regard to whether or not they should renew Superintendent Jack R. Smith's contract and they do not want any public discussion of the terms of a contract renewal. 

NOTE:  This was how the Board of Education operated when Jerry Weast was the Superintendent. 

February 27, 2020 AGENDA:
https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BKVL6D53D9DF