BOE Election Coverage: Three school board seats up for grabs in contentious Montgomery County race

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Voters in Maryland are casting their ballots Tuesday, including for key races on county school boards. In Montgomery County, three seats are up for grabs. At Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, no classes are being held due to the primary. While there are elections for president and Congress, the school board races have equal, if not greater, importance for voters today. Three of the seven seats on the Montgomery County School Board are on the ballot. All three incumbents are running, with a total of 14 candidates vying for the non-partisan, four-year terms...

...Some residents, like Janis Zink Sartucci from the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, expressed skepticism about the impact of the election outcomes. "I've been observing the Board of Education for over 20 years," Sartucci said. "In the past decade, I've seen them gradually relinquish power to superintendents and various MCPS administrators. Many school-related and budget-related decisions are now made outside the board's purview.".. 

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