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Showing posts with label Education Committee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education Committee. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Students continue to fail math final exams in Montgomery high schools
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-continue-to-fail-math-final-exams-in-montgomery-high-schools/2015/03/30/54211628-cf0a-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?hpid=z3
Friday, January 23, 2015
Cultural and Linguestic Diversity of MCPS Students and Staff Report
The Montgomery County Council Education Committee will discuss their just released report on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of MCPS Students and Staff on January 26, 2015, at 9:30 AM. The meeting will be televised and webcast.
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OLO Report 2015-1, Report at this link: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of MCPS Students and Staff
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OLO Report 2015-1, Report at this link: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of MCPS Students and Staff
Superintendent Joshua Starr's response to this report is on page 14 at this link.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Council's Education Committee to meet on Sept. 15th
ED 9:30 AM - 7th floor
Montgomery County Council
Sep 15, 2014
• Briefing - ACES Program (Ferber)
• FY14 Year-End MCPS Financial Report and Categorical Transfer (McGuire)
•To be determined
Montgomery County Council
Sep 15, 2014
• Briefing - ACES Program (Ferber)
• FY14 Year-End MCPS Financial Report and Categorical Transfer (McGuire)
•To be determined
Monday, April 21, 2014
Tuesday, April 22nd: MCPS Financial Report at Montgomery County Council Education Committee
April 22, 2014
Montgomery County Council, Maryland
Education Committee
ED 2:00 PM - 7CHR
Apr 22 (1) • MCPS Financial Report (McGuire)
FY15 Operating Budget
(2) • Montgomery County Public Schools (McGuire)
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/OnDemand/index.html
Montgomery County Council, Maryland
Education Committee
ED 2:00 PM - 7CHR
Apr 22 (1) • MCPS Financial Report (McGuire)
FY15 Operating Budget
(2) • Montgomery County Public Schools (McGuire)
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/OnDemand/index.html
Sunday, July 21, 2013
BOE Stiffs Council on Information Request
On March 20, 2013, the Montgomery County Council's Education Committee asked the Board of Education for some very basic information. See pages Circle 1-3 in the document below.
Here was the question:
NO! The Board of Education provided the Council with the list of approved projects only for FY 2011, FY 2012 and part of FY 2013. What happened to 2003 through 2010? Records lost? What about the disapproved projects? Shredded?
Even worse is that Council staff covers for the Board of Education by glossing over the failure to respond in the meeting packet (below) prepared for Councilmembers.
We are now seeing a clear pattern on the part of the Board of Education of ignoring Council Education Committee requests for information.
MCPS Surplus? Council questions go unanswered at hearing and hearing must be re-scheduled. Charter School? Council questions can't be answered and hearing must be re-scheduled. Facility Improvements from parents and private sources? See the packet below.
The Council's Education Committee is now in a pattern of re-scheduling hearings on MCPS topics because of the failure of the Board of Education and MCPS to show up and respond.
Here was the question:
For each year since 2003, please provide:It is now July. Did the Board of Education provide that information to the Council?
- The number of requests for privately funded facility improvements MCPS has received;
- The number approved and disapproved; and
- A list of projects approved and disapproved.
NO! The Board of Education provided the Council with the list of approved projects only for FY 2011, FY 2012 and part of FY 2013. What happened to 2003 through 2010? Records lost? What about the disapproved projects? Shredded?
Even worse is that Council staff covers for the Board of Education by glossing over the failure to respond in the meeting packet (below) prepared for Councilmembers.
We are now seeing a clear pattern on the part of the Board of Education of ignoring Council Education Committee requests for information.
MCPS Surplus? Council questions go unanswered at hearing and hearing must be re-scheduled. Charter School? Council questions can't be answered and hearing must be re-scheduled. Facility Improvements from parents and private sources? See the packet below.
The Council's Education Committee is now in a pattern of re-scheduling hearings on MCPS topics because of the failure of the Board of Education and MCPS to show up and respond.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Exclusive: Why doesn't the Council Have This Document?
On Monday, July 22, 2013, the Montgomery County Council's Education Committee claims they will be reviewing the one and only MCPS Board of Education charter school. For their meeting Council staff prepares a "packet" of information for Councilmembers.
What's in the Monday "packet" for this discussion? Fluff from the charter school vendor. Is that what Council review is about? Letting vendors put on a show?
Well, if the Council was really interested in providing some oversight they would start by reviewing the Charter School Agreement that was executed between the Board of Education and the charter school vendor. But, the Council can't review that document because they don't have it.
But, we do.
Here is the Charter School Agreement for the MCPS Board of Education's one and only charter school. Maybe its time the Council's Education Committee read this document and exercised some real oversight over the almost $700,000 in tax dollars this school will receive this year?
What's in the Monday "packet" for this discussion? Fluff from the charter school vendor. Is that what Council review is about? Letting vendors put on a show?
Well, if the Council was really interested in providing some oversight they would start by reviewing the Charter School Agreement that was executed between the Board of Education and the charter school vendor. But, the Council can't review that document because they don't have it.
But, we do.
Here is the Charter School Agreement for the MCPS Board of Education's one and only charter school. Maybe its time the Council's Education Committee read this document and exercised some real oversight over the almost $700,000 in tax dollars this school will receive this year?
Monday, July 15, 2013
$9 MILLION for non-monitored "security" systems this year in MCPS
If you read the #MoCo County Council Ed Committee memo from July 8, 2013, a TOTAL of $8.996 (just call it $9) MILLION will be spent on non-monitored "security" systems this year.
Just $5.86 Million discussed at this specific (July 8th) meeting: $4.186 MILLION in State taxpayer funds PLUS $1.674 MILLION County borrowed (i.e., money will have to be repaid with interest so actually costing MORE) thru GO Bonds, of which $1.5 MILLION is a shifting of planned monies from FY16-18 to FY15.
Nothing like borrowing from the future!
Oh, if you're counting, that other $3.16 MILLION is already coming from County coffers (but who's counting).
---Great financial leadership there---
Agnes Jones Trower
Monday, July 8, 2013
MCPS Posts $21.8 Million Surplus
Montgomery County Council Education Committee for July 8, 2013:
...The most recent monthly financial report was presented to the Board of Education on June 13, and reflects financial conditions through April 30 (attached circles 1-9). The report shows that MCPS currently projects a total year-end surplus of $21.8 million. This total consists of $17.9 million in projected expenditure surplus and $3.9 million in projected revenue surplus...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Civic Fed Resolution Opposing taking Public Parks for MCPS Use
All,
Peggy Dennis, President of the Civic Fed, asked me to pass this on to readers interested in this topic, the taking of public parks by the BOE for MCPS use. Note the PHED/Ed Committees' joint meeting on July 25th, 2pm in the Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, where this will be discussed. Directions are here. Please attend. The session will be televised. Email the council here. Tell them you agree with the Civic Fed resolution. Nancy Floreen is chair of the PHED and Valerie Ervin chairs the Ed committee.
Paula Bienenfeld
Education Committee Chair, Montgomery County Civic Federation
Ms. Dennis:
Thank you for your email of June 22 forwarding a resolution to the Council from the Montgomery County Civic Federation opposing the taking of public land for use by MCPS. I wanted to let you know that the Council’s Planning, Housing, and Economic Development (PHED) Committee and Education Committee will hold a joint meeting on July 25 at 2:00 PM in the Council Office Building (100 Maryland Avenue, 3rd Floor Hearing Room) in Rockville to discuss school site selection issues. Officials and staff from both MCPS and M-NCPPC will participate in the discussion. Please forward this information to Civic Federation members.
Thanks,
Keith Levchenko
Senior Legislative Analyst
Montgomery County Council Staff
100 Maryland Avenue, 5th Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
(work) 240-777-7944
(fax) 240-777-7888
keith.levchenko@montgomerycountymd.gov
From: Peggy Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, June 22,2011 5:01 PM
To: Bradford, Mary; Carrier, Francoise; Floreen's Office, Councilmember; Navarro's Office, Councilmember; Leventhal's Office, Councilmember; Andrews's Office, Councilmember; Berliner's Office, Council member; Eirich's Office, Councilmember; Ervin's Office, Councilmember; Riemer's Office, Councilmember; Rice's Office, Councilmember; BOE; Ike Leggett
Subject: Montgomery County Civic Federation position
Attached is the Resolution adopted by the Montgomery County Civic Federation opposing the taking of public park land for use by MCPS. Please read.
Peggy Dennis President, Montgomery County Civic Federation
Resolution Opposing the Taking of Public Park lands for MCPS Schools
Passed by the membership at the June 13, 2011 meeting of the Montgomery County Civic Federation.
Concerning the recent site selection process for a proposed new middle school in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster, and what was identified by community members, the Montgomery Planning Board Chair and Parks Director as a flawed and exclusive process employed by the Montgomery County Board of Education and Montgomery County Public Schools:
Whereas 6 out of 10 sites on a recent MCPS site selection list were county parks which have been purchased and maintained with appropriated funds and,
Whereas the County Executive acted to recommend use of one park over another based on former occupancy of Rock Creek Hills Park by Kensington Junior High School, and,
Whereas an existing 34,000 acres of county parkland are valuable natural resources as well as treasured public spaces that should not be jeopardized by uses outside ofthe mission and goals of M-NCPPC, the government entity charged with Parks stewardship, and,
Whereas parks and schools are both extremely important county services that should never compete for land use, and
Whereas, parkland should not be treated as surplus or vacant property, and
Whereas other sites should be considered for redevelopment or reclamation by the Board of Education and MCPS, such as the former Montgomery Hills Middle School, and
Whereas, the Montgomery County Planning Department staff and Planning Board should meet immediately with officials from MCPS and the Board of Education to discuss alternatives to attempting to take parkland for use as school sites,
Be it resolved that the Montgomery County Civic Federation urges the State, County Executive, incoming School Superintendent Joshua Starr, Board of Education and staff in charge of school site selection at MCPS:
• to develop a transparent process for engaging and consulting with community stakeholders long before a site selection process is started for a new school building,
• to act in the future with integrity and complete transparency,
• work in consultation with professional land use planners at the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission and the Planning Director on all future land use decisions that will affect an entire community,
• refrain from attempting to take and use any parkland in Montgomery County for school sites.
Peggy Dennis, President of the Civic Fed, asked me to pass this on to readers interested in this topic, the taking of public parks by the BOE for MCPS use. Note the PHED/Ed Committees' joint meeting on July 25th, 2pm in the Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, where this will be discussed. Directions are here. Please attend. The session will be televised. Email the council here. Tell them you agree with the Civic Fed resolution. Nancy Floreen is chair of the PHED and Valerie Ervin chairs the Ed committee.
Paula Bienenfeld
Education Committee Chair, Montgomery County Civic Federation
Ms. Dennis:
Thank you for your email of June 22 forwarding a resolution to the Council from the Montgomery County Civic Federation opposing the taking of public land for use by MCPS. I wanted to let you know that the Council’s Planning, Housing, and Economic Development (PHED) Committee and Education Committee will hold a joint meeting on July 25 at 2:00 PM in the Council Office Building (100 Maryland Avenue, 3rd Floor Hearing Room) in Rockville to discuss school site selection issues. Officials and staff from both MCPS and M-NCPPC will participate in the discussion. Please forward this information to Civic Federation members.
Thanks,
Keith Levchenko
Senior Legislative Analyst
Montgomery County Council Staff
100 Maryland Avenue, 5th Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
(work) 240-777-7944
(fax) 240-777-7888
keith.levchenko@montgomerycountymd.gov
From: Peggy Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, June 22,2011 5:01 PM
To: Bradford, Mary; Carrier, Francoise; Floreen's Office, Councilmember; Navarro's Office, Councilmember; Leventhal's Office, Councilmember; Andrews's Office, Councilmember; Berliner's Office, Council member; Eirich's Office, Councilmember; Ervin's Office, Councilmember; Riemer's Office, Councilmember; Rice's Office, Councilmember; BOE; Ike Leggett
Subject: Montgomery County Civic Federation position
Attached is the Resolution adopted by the Montgomery County Civic Federation opposing the taking of public park land for use by MCPS. Please read.
Peggy Dennis President, Montgomery County Civic Federation
Resolution Opposing the Taking of Public Park lands for MCPS Schools
Passed by the membership at the June 13, 2011 meeting of the Montgomery County Civic Federation.
Concerning the recent site selection process for a proposed new middle school in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster, and what was identified by community members, the Montgomery Planning Board Chair and Parks Director as a flawed and exclusive process employed by the Montgomery County Board of Education and Montgomery County Public Schools:
Whereas 6 out of 10 sites on a recent MCPS site selection list were county parks which have been purchased and maintained with appropriated funds and,
Whereas the County Executive acted to recommend use of one park over another based on former occupancy of Rock Creek Hills Park by Kensington Junior High School, and,
Whereas an existing 34,000 acres of county parkland are valuable natural resources as well as treasured public spaces that should not be jeopardized by uses outside ofthe mission and goals of M-NCPPC, the government entity charged with Parks stewardship, and,
Whereas parks and schools are both extremely important county services that should never compete for land use, and
Whereas, parkland should not be treated as surplus or vacant property, and
Whereas other sites should be considered for redevelopment or reclamation by the Board of Education and MCPS, such as the former Montgomery Hills Middle School, and
Whereas, the Montgomery County Planning Department staff and Planning Board should meet immediately with officials from MCPS and the Board of Education to discuss alternatives to attempting to take parkland for use as school sites,
Be it resolved that the Montgomery County Civic Federation urges the State, County Executive, incoming School Superintendent Joshua Starr, Board of Education and staff in charge of school site selection at MCPS:
• to develop a transparent process for engaging and consulting with community stakeholders long before a site selection process is started for a new school building,
• to act in the future with integrity and complete transparency,
• work in consultation with professional land use planners at the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission and the Planning Director on all future land use decisions that will affect an entire community,
• refrain from attempting to take and use any parkland in Montgomery County for school sites.
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