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Showing posts with label North Star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Star. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

$40,000 membership for MCPS - Club dues instead of teacher salaries

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MCPS is a member of the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC).   Clients must pay membership fees to join the APQC program. APQC...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

How Much Will the Common Core Cost?

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States face key spending decisions as they implement the Common Core State Standards, and a new study finds that they could save about $92...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Starr ups FY13 budget request to $46,052,899 over FY12

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On January 25, 2012, Superintendent Joshua Starr released his latest FY 2013 Operating request.  The detailed memorandum to the Board of Edu...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Exclusive: Weast cut $3.25 million from Pearson deal without Board vote

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Why did Superintendent Weast do that?  Because the cash  was " no longer necessary ". (See page Circle 5 of Council packet at lin...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Montgomery County schools chief targets special ed, test score gap | Washington Examiner

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Montgomery County Public Schools parents and staff are most concerned about special education services and the persistent achievement ga...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

Pearson Junkets for D.C. Superintendent Make Print Edition of Washington Post

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In today's Washington Post print edition there is a story about the D.C. State Superintendent of Education.  As part of that story, repo...
Monday, May 16, 2011

$3.25 Million Gone From Pearson - MCPS Deal

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Here's what Superintendent Jerry Weast told the Board of Education on June 8, 2010: "In accordance with the Agreement, Pearson wi...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

After Council adds Administrators to MCPS, then what?

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On March 7, 2011, the County Council's Education Committee will discuss approving a $4,999,634  grant to MCPS . Odds are very good that ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Board of Education and public kept in dark on Pearson deal

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Grant application reveals that Superintendent Weast collaborated with Pearson on curriculum in 2009 Analysis of the MCPS Investing in Inno...
Friday, August 6, 2010

"No detailed information" in North Star proposal

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Did you know that Superintendent Jerry Weast's North Star project proposes a quasi-experimental study? The comments from the Department ...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

450,000 students will thank Montgomery Co. taxpayers

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MCPS is no longer just in the business of educating 140,000 county residents. Oh, no!  450,000 students across the nation will now have MC...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

More Administrators! MCPS wins up to $5 million i3 Dept of Ed Grant!

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Great news! MCPS has won an i3 Grant from the U.S. Department of Education! That means that Superintendent Weast will be able to move ahead ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

MCPS drops in state ranking

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Ranking of MCPS vs. the 24 School Districts in Maryland on percent achieving proficiency using the 2010 MSA results just published. Math ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Navigating by North Star, Weast hits Algebra Iceberg

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Weast misses Algebra target. In February of 2008, Superintendent Jerry Weast proclaimed that the "North Star" was guiding MCP...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Deliberate Excellence: Weast's Five Stages

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Read all about it! Five stages to school system maturity. Seven Keys to College Readiness. The North Star (that would be North Star Number O...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

We are saved! We have found the North Star!

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Once again , a MCPS employee has given a testimonial for an outside vendor.  See the image on the left highlighting the statement from Dr...