Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: BOE Member Lynne Harris on Electric Bus Scheme: "Our vendors were not being upfront with us. And they were saying different things to different people."

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

BOE Member Lynne Harris on Electric Bus Scheme: "Our vendors were not being upfront with us. And they were saying different things to different people."

At the January 29, 2024, Montgomery County Board of Education Fiscal Management Committee Meeting, Board of Education member Lynne Harris commented on problems with the HET MCPS, LLC [Highland Electric Fleets] electric school bus scheme, "We are demanding that they be transparent with us."

Listen to her statement at the Board of Education's Fiscal Management Committee meeting on January 29, 2024, during their discussion of the MCPS Department of Transportation. The video is linked below.

Note that the CESO Report Deliverable #1 was already completed by this meeting, but the MCPS administrators did not present the report to the Board of Education Committee.

Board of Education member Lynne Harris thanks the MCPS administrators Dana Edwards, Brian Hull and Michael Lewis for their work. Did she know they were withholding the CESO Report?

Click link to hear BOE Member Lynne Harris' comment:

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/296073?ts=8170

Go to Minute 2:16:09 of January 29, 2024 BOE Fiscal Management Committee Meeting:

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Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

E-mail: parentscoalitionmc AT outlook.com

What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011