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Friday, December 9, 2022

New @mocoboe members Immediately Left Town for Miami Vacation with rest of BOE and @mcps Superintendent.

Newly elected Board of Education members Grace Rivera-Oven and Julie Yang were on the Montgomery County Board of Education for just 7 days when they left town for Miami with the rest of the Board of Education members.

This December vacation for the Board of Education and Superintendent will be paid for out of the MCPS Operating Budget. Remember all those teachers begging for school supplies? Sorry, the Board of Education and Superintendent needed to get some Miami sun in December. Buy your own supplies teachers.

@mcps Teachers buy your own supplies. Superintendent McKnight needed a Miami vacation in December.

At #CUBE22 conference, Dr. McKnight is interviewed by Alex Lopez about the importance of racial equity in education. "There's no more important goal than achieving equity in education.” https://t.co/nSUOzUrTXh @NSBAPublicEd pic.twitter.com/TybWmDh6xV
— MCPS (@MCPS) December 8, 2022

CUBE 2022 Annual Conference (nsba.org)

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Principles

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