Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: E-Rate Program

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Board of Education Continues Approving No Bid Consulting Contracts/Payments without Ever Seeing Contracts or Justification for Expenditures

The Montgomery County Board of Education has been approving the expenditure of tens of thousands of dollars a year to the above company for what?

The Board of Education doesn't know and never asks. The Board of Education never sees the contracts or invoices connected to this expenditure.

Every year the Board of Education simply approves this payment as an "extension" of some previous invoice or contract, or as a procurement based on another school systems purchase.

10 years ago the Parents' Coalition researched this consulting arrangement and at that time the best we could determine was that this consultant is being paid to fill out forms related to obtaining rebates from the federal government. In 10 years could MCPS have trained someone how to fill out these forms and saved the consulting fee?

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C82J9S4C225F/$file/Procurement%20Contracts%20REVISED%20211026.pdf

Sunday, February 5, 2012

MoCo Council MCPS Capital Improvements--Public Hearings

Montgomery County Council Agenda

Council Hearing Room, 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850
(240)777-7900 · TTY (240)777-7914 · FAX (240)777-7989
www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council

FUTURE PUBLIC HEARINGS
To testify call 240-777-7803

Feb 7, 2012
1:30 pm Supplemental appropriations to the M-NCPPC’s FY12 Capital Budget and amendments to the FY11-16 Capital Improvements Program

$1,058,940 for Acquisition: Local Parks

$325,000 for ADA Compliance: Non-Local Parks

7:00 pm FY13 Capital Budget and FY13-18 Capital Improvements Program

Feb 8, 2012
7:00 pm FY13 Capital Budget and FY13-18 Capital Improvements Program –CANCELLED

Feb 9, 2012
7:00 pm FY13 Capital Budget and FY13-18 Capital Improvements Program - MCPS

Feb 14, 2012
1:30 pm Supplemental appropriation to the MCPS’ FY12 Capital Budget and the FY11-16 Capital Improvements Program - $1,339,200 for E-Rate Program for the Technology Modernization project and a transfer for the Relocatable Classrooms project

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