Monday, July 8, 2024

MCPS misused emergency funds in sexual harassment investigation, new OIG report says

...Janis Sartucci with the watchdog group Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County said this was all about damage control.

"This was all about the reputation of the Board of Education and protecting the individuals on the Board of Education without a thought in the world to what's going on in the classroom and what students need," Sartucci said.

Sartucci added that unchecked spending like this is one of the biggest problems in the county.

"Parents, community members, they think education funding means classrooms. They think when they pay their property taxes, that money is going to classrooms to support students and teachers," Sartucci said. "In fact, tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars in this $3.2 billion education budget go to things like this damage control."

One parent FOX 5 spoke with, Priya Baskaran, said she would love to see resources be diverted into schools rather into administrative bloat...


1 comment:

  1. It all makes sense. Our elected creative accountants took care of it. That's why there is a sudden spike in our property taxes. . .

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