Affidavit: BOE President Wolff Swears COVID-19 Operations Advisory Team is NOT part of Board of Education Strategic Plan

Remember in September of 2021, when Interim Superintendent Monifa McKnight Unveiled her Five-Point Plan for Further COVID Safety, Mitigation?  Remember that her "plan" included this:

What exactly happened to that COVID-19 operations advisory committee?  Who is on the committee? Have they met? Do they have recommendations?  

MCPS parents have asked those questions and the answer from Superintendent McKnight is that the answers are a secret. 

And to back up Superintendent McKnight's secrecy around the COVID-19 Operations Advisory Team, Board of Education Brenda Wolff has signed an affidavit that the Board of Education has nothing to do with the COVID-19 Operations Advisory Team.  

Nonetheless, Superintendent McKnight continues to use the COVID-19 Operations Advisory Team as a component of her discussions of the Board of Education's Strategic Plan.  

October 5, 2021 see page 13:  https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C7JHTU46C420/$file/BOE%20Strategic%20Plan%20211005%20PPT.pdf

February 14, 2022 see Page 4:  

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/boe/03.01%20Proposed%20Amends%20FY2023%20Rec%20Op%20Bdgt%20220214%20PPT%20AC.pdf

What does this mean? It means that the COVID-19 Operations Advisory Team is an imaginary group as far as teachers and parents are concerned.  The "team" can meet in private, does not post any publicly available minutes or reports, and any recommendations can be kept completely secret from the public.  No transparency, no accountability, means this "team" is effectively non-existent.  

That's the way Superintendent Monifa McKnight wants it.  Secrecy during a global pandemic is part of her Five Point Plan for COVID Mitigation and Safety. 

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