Longtime MCPS elementary school teacher running for school board

Valerie Coll, a retired MCPS teacher, plans to challenge BOE member Brenda Wolff for the District 5 seat.

Story in Bethesda Beat, reporter Caitlynn Peetz. Read the entire article here.

Valerie Coll of Silver Spring filed to run against incumbent Brenda Wolff for the District 5 seat on the Board of Education.

And:

"If elected, Coll said, she would examine the district’s budget priorities and determine if “they make sense” and she would try to rebuild confidence and trust in the district’s leadership.

She highlighted that in recent months, the district’s employee unions representing teachers, administrators and support staff have each criticized MCPS leadership’s response to the pandemic. MCEA passed a vote of no confidence and each of the other unions also voiced several concerns.

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Coll said she was skeptical, too, that an allocation of $500,000 in the recently passed Fiscal Year 2023 budget to hire a communications firm was necessary.

Jay Guan of Clarksburg announces he is running for District 1 Board of Ed seat

Jay Guan, a resident of Clarksburg, has filed to run for the at-large seat of the county Board of Education. The seat is currently held by Dr. Judith Docca, who has been on the board for 16 years and is serving her fourth four-year term now.

From his Facebook page:

After much thought over the past two years, I have decided to run for the Board of Education again.

Our system many urgent issues to think through and talk about. If you have an idea or issue you (or your friends) want to discuss, drop me a line, I am all ears.

Hogan orders in-person elections with mail-in options

Maryland will open all its polling places for the November general election but still will make mail-in ballots widely available.

Gov. Larry Hogan, in a letter to the State Board of Elections, said the state will hold elections in November that look  like a traditional election but with additional options, including widespread use of absentee ballots — choosing the second of three options sent to him by the State Board of Elections...

https://thedailyrecord.com/2020/07/08/hogan-orders-in-person-elections-with-mail-in-options/?utm_term=Hogan%20orders%20in-person%20elections%20with%20mail-in%20options&utm_campaign=Hogan%20orders%20in-person%20elections%20with%20mail-in%20options&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email

Board of Education Candidates Forum Tonight, 7-9pm Luxmanor ES

LUXMANOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

 

WITH COSPONSORS

GREATER FARMLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION

AND

NORTH BETHESDA NEIGHBORHOODS

Invite You to a Montgomery County Board of Education Candidate Debate

 

Jeanette Dixon

Sebastian Johnson

Phil Kaufman

Gwendolyn Love Kimbrough

Brandon Orman Rippeon

Shebra Evans

Anjali Reed Phukan

 

Jordan Cooper, Moderator

Thursday, March 24, 2016

7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

 

Luxmanor Elementary School

6201 Tilden Lane

Rockville, MD 20852 

For further information contact Ed Farber

at edfarber@comcast.net

The forum will be held in a speed dating type forum, rather than the conventional face the audience address. After opening statements, each candidate will spend 10-12 minutes with small groups. There will be 7 groups, and the candidates will move from group to group, answering questions and discussing educational issues, before all gathering together again for closing remarks. The format allows for more intimate and in depth conversations.

The Daily Record: Election watchdog raises alarm over duplicate voter registrations

Elections Integrity Maryland has identified 43,983 voters who were registered in Virginia and Maryland, some of whom voted in both states in 2012.

Read more: http://thedailyrecord.com/2014/08/27/election-watchdog-raises-alarm-over-duplicate-voter-registrations/#ixzz3BnZq0frW


and more coverage at this link...

Watchdog.org:  14,646 duplicate voters flagged in Fairfax, Maryland

What if they Gave an Election and No One Came?

Here are the numbers at the close of the polls for District 18, Precinct 4, where people vote at the Tilden Middle School Holding School:
Democrats: 222
Republicans: 132
Non-affiliated: 6
GRAND TOTAL: 350

What was the turn-out like at your polling place? Please post here and let us know.

Early Voting has Begun!

Early Voting has begun! The early voting period last from today until Thursday March 24th.

You can vote between 10 AM and 8 PM. Here are the 5 polling stations in Montgomery County:

Bauer Drive Community Recreation Center
14625 Bauer Drive

Rockville, MD 20853

Germantown Community Recreation Center
18905 Kingsview Road
Germantown, MD 20874

Marilyn Praisner Community Center
14906 Old Columbia Pike
Burtonsville, MD 20866

Executive Office Building
101 Monroe Street
Rockville, MD 20850

Silver Spring Civic Building
8525 Fenton Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910