Longtime MCPS elementary school teacher running for school board

Valerie Coll, a retired MCPS teacher, plans to challenge BOE member Brenda Wolff for the District 5 seat.

Story in Bethesda Beat, reporter Caitlynn Peetz. Read the entire article here.

Valerie Coll of Silver Spring filed to run against incumbent Brenda Wolff for the District 5 seat on the Board of Education.

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"If elected, Coll said, she would examine the district’s budget priorities and determine if “they make sense” and she would try to rebuild confidence and trust in the district’s leadership.

She highlighted that in recent months, the district’s employee unions representing teachers, administrators and support staff have each criticized MCPS leadership’s response to the pandemic. MCEA passed a vote of no confidence and each of the other unions also voiced several concerns.

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Coll said she was skeptical, too, that an allocation of $500,000 in the recently passed Fiscal Year 2023 budget to hire a communications firm was necessary.