Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Superintendent Taylor Determines Transparency is No Longer Important, Withholds Proposed Budget Until MCPS Closes for Winter Break.

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Superintendent Taylor Determines Transparency is No Longer Important, Withholds Proposed Budget Until MCPS Closes for Winter Break.

Remember when Superintendent Thomas W. Taylor was hired by the Board of Education?

On his third day of work Superintendent Taylor released a letter to the public which stated:

"...Transparency is really important to me..."

Apparently transparency is no longer "really important" to Superintendent Taylor. Despite putting out a press release that said:

MCPS Superintendent Thomas W. Taylor presented his recommended Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Operating Budget on Dec. 17

As of December 22, 2025, Superintendent Taylor's proposed FY27 Operating Budget had still not been released.

When asking the MCPS Chatbox on December 22, 2025, where the FY27 Operating Budget was on the MCPS website, here was the Chatbox's response:

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AnonymousDecember 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Winter Break Reading:
https://sidneyjourard.com/TRANSPARENTSELFFINAL.PDF
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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