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:

For each year since 2003, please provide: 

• 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.

It is now July.  Did the Board of Education provide that information to the Council?

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.

  20130722_ED1 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Council: "private contributions may lead to or exacerbate inequities among...schools"

  Ervin LettertoBOEonPrivateFundingofAmenities 3-28-13 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Board Cancels Meeting, Scrubs Transition Report Update

The Board of Education has cancelled their Monday, October 24, 2011 regularly scheduled meeting. 


What was on the Agenda? Two hours and fifteen minutes of the Monday evening meeting was to have been devoted to the Superintendent's Transition Report. 
The rest of the agenda items are shown on the original agenda below. 

Agenda