Bill pushing raises for school board dies in abbreviated legislative session

A bill that would have given Montgomery County school board members a raise for the first time in six years failed in this year’s abbreviated state legislative session.

The proposed $10,000 raise would have increased board members’ salaries to $35,000 per year...

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/bill-pushing-raises-for-school-board-dies-in-abbreviated-legislative-session/

Fri. 1/31/20 MoCo Delegation to Vote on Pay Increase for Adult and Student Board of Ed.

The Montgomery County Delegation will be meeting on Friday, January 31, 2020, at 9:00 AM in Annapolis.  If you can't attend the meeting in person you should be able to watch the livestream of the meeting on the Montgomery County House Delegation Facebook.

The Montgomery County Senators and Delegates will be voting on two bills involving Montgomery County's Board of Education.  One bill involves increasing the compensation paid to Board of Education members, including upping the student member's compensation to $48,000.

The other bill involves giving the Montgomery County Inspector General authority over MCPS.

Montgomery County House Delegation

Friday, January 31, 2020

9:00 a.m.

Room 170 Lowe House Office Building
Annapolis, Maryland

AGENDA

Briefing

• Hiram Burch - DLS Local Fiscal Briefing

• Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation with the Maryland Technology Council and the Montgomery County Chamber

Voting Session - Education, Elections, and Housing Committee Report (1/24/20):

• MC 8-20  Montgomery County – Public Campaign Financing – Board of Education

  Requested by Delegates Moon, Acevero, Carr, Charkoudian, Crutchfield, Cullison, Kelly, Lopez, Love, Luedtke, Palakovich Carr, Shetty, Solomon, Stewart & Wilkins & Senators Smith & Waldstreicher

  Education, Elections, and Housing Committee - Favorable

  
  
  

• MC 13-20  Montgomery County – Board of Education – Compensation

Requested by Chair on behalf of Montgomery County Board of Education Compensation Commission

Education, Elections, and Housing Committee - Favorable with Amendment

• MC 14-20  Montgomery County – Authority of County Council Over Inspector General – Montgomery County Public Schools

Requested by Senator Kramer & Delegate Solomon

Education, Elections, and Housing Committee - Favorable

http://montgomerycountydelegation.com/legislation.html 

E-mail addresses for Montgomery County Delegation:

eric.luedtke@house.state.md.us; anne.kaiser@house.state.md.us; craig.zucker@senate.state.md.us; pam.queen@house.state.md.us; brian.feldman@senate.state.md.us; kathleen.dumais@house.state.md.us; lily.qi@house.state.md.us; susan.lee@senate.state.md.us; ariana.kelly@house.state.md.us; marc.korman@house.state.md.us; sara.love@house.state.md.us; cheryl.kagan@senate.state.md.us; kumar.barve@house.state.md.us; jim.gilchrist@house.state.md.us; julie.palakovichcarr@house.state.md.us; jeff.waldstreicher@senate.state.md.us; alfred.carr@house.state.md.us; emily.shetty@house.state.md.us; jared.solomon@house.state.md.us; ben.kramer@senate.state.md.us; charlotte.crutchfield@house.state.md.us; bonnie.cullison@house.state.md.us; vaughn.stewart@house.state.md.us; will.smith@senate.state.md.us; lorig.charkoudian@house.state.md.us; david.moon@house.state.md.us; jheanelle.wilkins@house.state.md.us; Nancy.King@senate.state.md.us; gabriel.acevero@house.state.md.us; lesley.lopez@house.state.md.us; kirill.reznik@house.state.md.us; david.fraser.hidalgo@house.state.md.us

MoCo Student Board of Ed. Member to Get $12K Stipend, Plus $48K Scholarship. Adult Bd Members to Get $60K

The REPORT OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION COMPENSATION COMMISSION  has been released.  This Report will be used by the Maryland Legislature to raise the stipends for adult Montgomery County Board of Education members and for the student member (SMOB).

The Montgomery County Delegation is currently voting on a Bill that will allow the Legislature to use the Report as the basis for raising the stipends given to Montgomery County Board of Education members.

Here is the recommendation from the Report:

https://montgomerycountymd.gov/boards/Resources/Files/sites/becc/annual-reports/BECCFinalReportDecember%202019.pdf

Pay would more than double for Montgomery County, Md., school board members under proposal

A commission formed to explore a pay increase for school board members in Montgomery County — Maryland's largest school system — is recommending their pay more than double.

The Board of Education Compensation Commission urged this month that the pay for elected school board members be raised to $60,000 annually and that the president of the board get a boost to $70,000.

Currently, board members receive $25,000, and the president earns $29,000.

The commission also recommended that the board’s student representative receive a scholarship that is either 80 percent of the board members’ salary or a $40,000 scholarship, whichever is greater. The student would also receive a 20 percent stipend. Currently, the student representative receives a $5,000 scholarship.

“The commission believes that the current salary level is not reflective of the time and effort needed for a board member to fulfill their duties and responsibilities, nor of the type of work that the board is called on to perform,” Jaye Espy, chairwoman of the commission, said in testimony Dec. 9 before the Montgomery County delegation to the Maryland General Assembly. The pay increase requires the General Assembly’s approval...

...“We have not supported increasing the stipend because we don’t see the effort on their part to participate in the administration of the school system,” said Janis Sartucci of the Parents’ Coalition of Montgomery County, an advocacy organization focused on transparency and performance of Montgomery County’s public schools. “The board members do not do the hard work of running the school system. They are more figureheads.”

Sartucci said board members are not involved in writing the nuts and bolts of the operating budget or the capital budget and said her group is opposed to money being diverted from schools.

“Until our classrooms are getting all the education dollars they need, we do not see the urgency to increase the board member stipend,” she said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/pay-would-more-than-double-for-montgomery-county-md-school-board-members-under-proposal/2019/12/29/d2217334-233c-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html#comments-wrapper