@mcps Administrators find $$$$ for Summer Beach Conference (Teachers, still need copy paper?)

MCAAP Conference

@PrincipalKafele thanks for your inspiring keynote this am!@MCAAPMD @MCPS pic.twitter.com/sVkheDQ8vb

— Dr. Cara Grant (@CaraGrant11) June 20, 2024

MCPS Selling It on the Conference Circuit

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Maryland's teachers union spent $509,000 on travel, while counties struggle to fund public education

...According to MSEA’s federal non-profit filings, the union spent $509,013 on travel expenses last year. That amount does not include “Conferences, conventions, and meetings,” which is another $35,010.

“There is no justification to spend half a million dollars a year on travel. The receipts need to be provided,” said David Williams with the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. “And this money is going to the unions. It's not ultimately getting to the kids. And the stated purpose of the union is to help the children.”

n the last 10 years, the union has spent a lot on travel. In fact, $509,000 is on the low end. In 2013, the union spent $543,214 on travel expenses. By 2016, that number topped $1.1 million. During the COVID years, the numbers came down. But the union still managed to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel as most schools were shut down.

In all, over the last decade, the union spent $6,448,327 on travel expenses. That comes out to an average of $53,736 a month, every month, for 10 straight years. How does that fulfill the union’s tax-exempt mission to “elevate the quality of public education for all students”?

In addition to the travel expenses, Project Baltimore found that MSEA’s revenue and assets have reached record highs. And at least 11 employees of the union earned more than $200,000 last year in total compensation. Meanwhile, test scores in the state have been steadily declining.

“Teachers are always complaining that they don't have enough supplies,” Williams told Project Baltimore. “The union could take millions of dollars that they have and buy supplies for the teachers to make the kids have a better educational experience. The unions are failing the kids. They're failing the state.”..

Maryland's teachers union spent $509K on travel, while counties struggle to fund public ed | WBFF (foxbaltimore.com)

@mcps Teachers buy your own supplies. Superintendent McKnight needed a Miami vacation in December.

At #CUBE22 conference, Dr. McKnight is interviewed by Alex Lopez about the importance of racial equity in education. "There's no more important goal than achieving equity in education.” https://t.co/nSUOzUrTXh @NSBAPublicEd pic.twitter.com/TybWmDh6xV

— MCPS (@MCPS) December 8, 2022

CUBE 2022 Annual Conference (nsba.org)

 

Take a Look at how @mocoboe Spent $582,281,019 in FY 21

MCPS FY 2021 Spending: 

Vendors that received payments of $25,000 or more in Fiscal Year 2021

Source:  MCPS Funding and Transparency Database (It is unclear if the totals for FY 21 represent the final payouts or if additional payouts will be added at a later date.)  

CDW LLC $53,466,587  (What did the BOE buy from CDW?)

Banc of America Public Capital Corp $43,266,303 

Keller Brothers Inc $38,045,225 

Dustin Construction Inc $20,031,182 

American Truck & Bus Inc $17,842,731 

Data Networks of America Inc $16,049,920 

Benchmark Education Company LLC $12,238,144 

JPMorgan Chase Bank. N.A. (MCPS Personal Credit Cards) $12,001,172 

Pepco $10,676,288 

Towson Mechanical Inc $10,597,796 

WGL Energy Services Inc $9,815,098 

Benefit Strategies LLC $8,985,605 

Keller Construction Management LLC $8,053,655 

Hess Construction and Engineering Services Inc $7,201,371 

Ivymount School $6,776,018 

Sheppard Pratt Non-Contracted Services LLC $6,634,066 

Henley Construction Co Inc $6,620,539 

Tuckman-Barbee Construction Co $6,289,067 

W L Gary Company Inc $6,263,994 

Douron Inc $6,033,466 

Havtech Parts Division LLC $5,799,169 

S Freedman & Sons Inc $5,700,937 

Kennedy Krieger Education and Community Services Inc $5,172,896 

M&M Welding & Fabricators $4,842,005 

Community Support Services $4,541,497 

Buch Construction Inc $4,482,854 

Treatment & Learning Centers Inc $4,332,436 

Denver-Elek Inc $4,156,943 

Paramount Mechanical Corp $4,046,089 

RCC1545 LLC $3,923,472 

Greater Washington Community Foundation $3,725,000 

The Foundation Schools $3,713,549 

Applications Software Technology LLC $3,651,052 

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission $3,577,157 

Netcom Technologies Inc $3,320,847 

Great Minds $3,279,014 

Interstate Corporation $3,198,249 

Maryland Unemployment Ins Adm $3,144,267 

Grimm & Parker Architecture Inc $3,055,953 

Cole Roofing Co Inc $2,924,804 

Edupoint Educational Systems LLC $2,896,831 

Washington Gas Light Company $2,824,274 

Samaha Associates PC $2,709,129 

Skanska USA Building $2,521,273 

Shapiro & Duncan Inc $2,488,993 

Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children $2,430,990 

Unisource Services LLC $2,422,887 

Bell TechLogix Inc $2,385,115 

Dairy Maid Dairy LLC $2,371,006 

Prevost Construction Co $2,313,955 

Orndorff & Spaid Inc $2,284,263 

DuBois Construction Inc $2,253,561 

Brook Lane Health Services Inc $2,037,020 

McGrath RentCorp $2,021,588 

Exelon Corporation $2,005,337 

Severin Intermediate Holdings LLC $1,988,665 

Phillips Programs $1,966,893 

Ridge School $1,841,674 

T-Mobile USA Inc $1,779,541 

Citiroof Corp $1,744,133 

Montgomery College $1,691,990 

Shorehaven Inc $1,635,510 

Smolen Emr Ilkovitch Architects Inc $1,618,768 

VMDO Architects PC $1,586,551 

Perkins Eastman Architects DPC $1,574,807 

Vatica Contracting Inc $1,502,496 

Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants & Young Children Inc $1,496,808 

Oracle America Inc $1,463,699 

Benedictine School $1,415,276 

Smith & Haines Inc $1,312,558 

American Environmental Enterprises Inc $1,235,086 

James River Solutions $1,216,183 

Northwest Evaluation Association $1,215,000 

Verizon Maryland Inc $1,212,334 

Plano-Coudon LLC $1,204,507 

Ginkgo Bioworks Inc $1,203,065 

Maggin Construction Co Inc $1,169,979 

Rescue One Training for Life Inc $1,162,454 

Daikin Applied Americas Inc $1,136,004 

Playground Specialists Inc $1,105,026 

McGraw-Hill Education Inc $1,092,802 

Pathways Schools $1,080,726 

MOCO KidsCo Inc (Kid Museum Bethesda owned by wife of BOE Joftus) $1,046,725 

American Tennis Courts Inc $1,021,453 

Comcast $1,019,689 

University of Maryland $1,013,252 

Nearpod Inc $1,002,500 

Specialized Education of MD Inc $973,810 

EMH Environmental Inc $964,839 

Potomac Edison $962,802 

Follett School Solutions Inc $955,954 

M T Laney Company Inc $954,382 

Instructure Inc $928,000 

Miles & Stockbridge PC (Lawyers) $922,966 

US Modular Group East Inc $915,404 

Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett & Scherr LLP (Lawyers) $897,669 

Design Collective Inc $870,204 

Walker Willis Corp $867,231 

Metro Metal Services Inc $856,844 

Zovio Inc $834,253 

St Elizabeth School $834,199 

Recovery Point Systems Inc $830,862 

K Neal International Trucks Inc $824,450 

Atlantech Online Inc $813,715 

Espina Paving Inc $804,303 

Gateway Education Holdings, LLC $795,319 

Aries Building Systems LLC $787,320 

Procom Communications LLC $736,243 

Dell Marketing LP $732,728 

Office Depot Inc $726,078 

Modular Genius Inc $721,880 

Walton Madden Cooper Robinson Poness Inc $717,291 

Coastal Acquisition Corporation $711,752 

MTFA Architecture PLLC $709,604 

Mythics, Inc $697,958 

Colossal Contractors, Inc $690,503 

Empire Landscape LLC $689,548 

Lab School Of Washington $676,109 

Lindsay Ford LLC $673,468 

CollegeTracks, Inc $650,000 

Lakeshore Equipment Company $638,711 

Language Line Services, Inc $633,480 

Delmar Architects PA $633,069 

CDW Government LLC $628,101 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company $627,583 

DLR Group of DC PC $618,688 

Institute for Multi-Sensory Education LLC $606,233 

HCGI Hartford Inc $597,178 

National Food Group Inc $594,695 

Boland Trane Services Inc $589,581 

Verizon Wireless $573,433 

Tan Fire Alarms, LLC $571,558 

Stage Rigging Services Inc $555,978 

Apple Inc $555,665 

Moseley Architects of Maryland Inc $555,113 

Nichols Contracting Inc $547,820 

Great Minds PBC $546,217 

State of Maryland $538,477 

Let's Do Lunch Inc $535,091 

Control Sources LLC $529,127 

Didax Inc $522,842 

Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc $516,182 

Bates Trucking Company Inc $514,981 

Oak Contracting LLC $514,680 

Episerver, Inc $504,897 

Pyramid Paper Company $487,434 

Storm Water Management Facilities Repair Group Inc $486,344 

Elcon Enterprises Inc $473,714 

Johnson Controls US Holdings LLC $471,828 

Hadley Farms Inc $471,560 

WB Mason Company Inc $468,533 

OverDrive Inc $468,268 

Partition Plus Inc $464,317 

Thompson, John $464,141 

Rasix Computer Center Inc $457,545 

McDaniel College Inc $456,144 

BGE $452,735 

E.A.R.N Contractors Inc $452,578 

International Baccalaureate $449,023 

Kellogg Sales Co $442,513 

Lifeworks (US) Ltd. $441,374 

Southern Insulation Inc $439,488 

Johnson Truck Center LLC $439,209 

The Children's Guild Inc $438,871 

Sunbelt Rentals Inc $436,549 

East West Telecommunications Inc $431,255 

American Air Filter Company Inc $428,214 

RK Payroll Solutions Inc $427,989 

Bowings & Huber LLC $425,937 

Wayside Publishing $424,187 

Sylvane Inc $423,630 

Really Great Reading LLC $422,253 

United States Postal Service $420,985 

Williams Scotsman Inc $418,750 

Bus Patrol America LLC $415,545 

Naviance Inc $411,908 

Adventist Healthcare Urgent Care Centers Inc $411,795 

Hood College $403,563 

Dori Foods Inc $401,647 

PAPCO Inc $401,105 

School Specialty Inc $398,643 

Finley Asphalt and Concrete Inc $396,424 

Online School Management System $388,338 

Ferguson Enterprises Inc $382,704 

LEGO Brand Retail, Inc $382,375 

Chesapeake Medical Staffing Inc $379,552 

Acer Service Corporation $377,354 

Blackboard Inc $376,950 

T L Garden & Associates Inc $375,832 

Rosetta Stone Ltd $375,000 

Tyson Foods Inc $374,139 

Infor (US) Inc $370,536 

Superior Supply Ltd $370,140 

Chelsea School $367,463 

Follett Higher Education Group Inc $365,924 

Mitel Business Systems Inc $363,783 

Weyer's Floor Service Inc $356,748 

AT&T Mobility II LLC $354,281 

Coughlan Companies LLC $351,186 

Applied Acoustical Sciences Inc $350,574 

Xerox Corporation $349,628 

Fitz Flooring LLC $349,355 

Speech Rehab Services LLC $346,439 

Guitar Center Stores Inc $345,769 

Unitec Distribution Systems Inc $344,884 

Capitol Document Solutions LLC $343,604 

MacMillan Holdings LLC $336,558 

The Maryland School for the Blind $335,521 

Cheong, Amanda $335,035 

Community Products LLC $332,195 

Discovery Education Inc $326,915 

Form Plastics Company $323,060 

Associated Catholic Charities Inc $322,575 

Steel Products Inc $320,261 

JTM Provisions Company, Inc $319,134 

Government Finance Officers $317,788 

The New England Center for Children Inc $316,950 

Diversified Educational Systems Inc $313,369 

L&R Enterprises, Inc $312,580 

Venable LLP (Lawyers) $310,515 

AON Consulting Inc $305,517 

Burdette, Koehler, Murphy & Associates Inc $300,774 

RRMM Architects PC $297,404 

ECM Corporation $291,748 

FWD Media Inc $291,497 

VSC Fire and Security Inc $290,629 

Criswell Chevrolet Inc $289,593 

Identity Inc $288,441 

Retro Environmental Inc $287,400 

Pessin Katz Law PA (Lawyers) $286,116 

JM Smucker Company $285,021 

Harbour School $284,193 

CenterPoint Education Solutions $283,900 

The George B Thomas Sr Learning Academy Inc (no bid) $280,917 

Fire & Life Safety America Inc $280,310 

edmentum Inc $274,118 

Savory Life LLC $271,927 

J.G. Parks & Son $271,041 

Allegis Group Holdings Inc $267,300 

Learn Zillion Inc $267,228 

RDA Corporation $267,215 

Lenovo Inc $267,153 

The Devereux Foundation $266,890 

The Hearing and Speech Agency of Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc $265,953 

Curriculum Associates LLC $265,922 

Riverside Assessments LLC $262,725 

Phonak Inc $261,918 

The Matthews Group Inc $261,200 

Perfection Learning Corporation $258,591 

PresenceLearning Inc $258,200 

JB Contracting Inc $256,090 

Winchester Homes Inc $255,680 

Sigman & Summerfield Associates Inc $252,170 

Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc $248,007 

Rolyn Companies Inc $246,978 

Project Lead The Way Inc $242,552 

Dreambox Learning $241,400 

Ms. Amy Couch and Mr. Kris Kealiher $237,590 

Mallick Mechanical Contractors Inc $237,191 

QuaverMusic.com LLC $236,880 

The K Group Architects $236,740 

J&J Snack Food Sales Corp $233,266 

Cengage Learning Inc $232,197 

Clark Azar & Associates, Inc $229,497 

Regional Institute for Children & Adolescents $229,079 

Shireen Realty Investments LLC $229,024 

Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc $228,426 

Game Day Inc $228,017 

Varsity Brands Holding Co Inc $227,043 

Mansfield Oil Co $221,800 

Performance Controls LLC $221,619 

Home Depot USA Inc $219,594 

Proffitt & Associates Architects, PC $218,882 

Magnolia Plumbing Inc $215,820 

Rockville Color LLC $210,868 

Calfed Financial Corp $210,415 

Canon Financial Services Inc $208,808 

Latham Centers Inc $207,978 

School Specialty LLC $205,661 

Washington Music Sales Center Inc $205,550 

Building Dynamics LLC $205,373 

Service Tire Truck Center Inc $203,362 

Northern Virginia Supply Inc $202,038 

Johnson & Towers Inc $200,531 

Family Solutions Network Inc $200,500 

TCA Architects LLC $200,475 

Quadient Inc $200,161 

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company $195,000 

City Of Rockville $194,622 

School Health Corporation $194,180 

Enel X North America, Inc $193,800 

Pleasants Construction Inc $193,800 

Hogan Lovells US LLP (Lawyers) $191,554 

Gambrills Equipment Co Inc $183,247 

Apex Companies LLC $182,769 

Yoti N N & Associates Inc $180,695 

Bunn LLC $178,908 

Urban N Zink Contractor Inc $177,760 

Turnitin LLC $176,179 

Heritage Schools Inc $174,615 

Automatic Nursing Care Services, Inc $174,367 

B W Wilson Paper Company Inc $173,809 

Sweeney Brothers Inc $173,678 

MinMor Industries LLC $173,600 

B&B Concepts Inc $172,551 

Gold Standard Consulting LLC $172,530 

Delta Engineeers, Architects & Land Surveyors DPC $172,324 

Peterson Farm Fresh Inc $172,247 

NCS Pearson Incorporated $170,149 

Board Of Education Prince George's $169,466 

Montage Inc $168,915 

Anne Arundel Fire Protection Inc *USE Supplier 311055 $168,730 

College Entrance Examination Board $168,586 

Be GLAD LLC $167,500 

The Best Battery Company Inc $166,821 

Cargill Kitchen Solutions Inc $165,419 

WKM Solutions LLC $165,302 

Daktronics Inc $164,294 

Kaplan Early Learning Company $163,888 

Wenger Corporation $163,752 

Tilley Chemical Co Inc $162,615 

Family Services Inc $161,817 

K&M Supply Inc $161,236 

Gaithersburg Farmers Supply Inc $160,321 

American Design Associates Inc $159,970 

W W Grainger Inc $158,846 

K12 Management Inc $156,600 

Amplify Education Inc (formerly Wireless Generation) $156,311 

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington $155,069 

The Arrow Project $154,307 

FPC Holdings, Inc $154,105 

Montgomery College Foundation Inc (Donation?) $153,767 

Dawkins Management Inc $153,382 

Saint Coletta of Greater Washington Inc $148,265 

Longroad Energy Holdings LLC $147,381 

Claire Weisz Architects LLP $145,045 

Research For Better Teaching $141,126 

Attainment Company $140,677 

BrightView Holdings Inc $140,386 

SupportEd LLC $139,132 

Moseley Architects PC $137,492 

Stantec Architecture Inc $137,309 

Microsoft Corporation $136,349 

Culinary Ventures Maryland $135,775 

Home Health Connection Inc $132,858 

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP $132,600 

The Tree House Inc $130,554 

IP DSC MOCO LLC $130,428 

Adform Advertising LLC $129,500 

Constellation NewEnergy Inc $129,411 

Apple & Eve LLC $129,363 

The Great Books Foundation $128,091 

VWR International LLC $126,278 

Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc $126,155 

Supreme Medical Fulfillment Systems Inc $125,794 

Damas, Stanislaw $125,730 

Equal Opportunity Schools $125,000 

Human Resources Research Organization $125,000 

Kingsman Holdings Inc $124,200 

Tseng, Paul $123,711 

Tyson Prepared Foods Inc $123,352 

Trapeze Software Group Inc $122,970 

General Mills Finance Inc $122,338 

Amber Enterprises Inc $120,211 

Ridgewells Holdings Inc $120,000 

Nardone Brothers Baking Company Inc $119,665 

Boiler & Furnace Cleaners Inc $118,396 

Scholastic Inc $118,072 

Barnes & Noble Booksellers Inc $117,518 

The Literacy Lab $116,627 

Texthelp Systems Inc $115,800 

B & H Foto & Electronics Corp $113,279 

Scholastic Library Publishing $112,926 

Hord Coplan Macht Inc $111,691 

Tex-Am Construction Co Inc $108,612 

Maryland Sound International Holding Co $108,239 

Daybreak Canyon LLC $108,000 

Nasco Education LLC $107,823 

National Association of School Psychologists $107,475 

Master Care Flooring Inc $107,272 

AMDA Distributors $106,899 

Sun Edison LLC. $106,842 

Imagination Station Inc. $105,900 

Burke Sports Construction Group, Inc. $105,558 

Hercules Fence Of Maryland LLC $104,957 

C. N. Robinson Lighting Supply Co Inc $104,037 

Crisis Prevention Institute Inc $103,262 

Chesapeake Communications Inc $102,985 

COSMOS AIR PURIFICATION & ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS INC $100,523 

J.S.B Industries Inc $100,100 

Lavinia Group LLC $100,000 

Mead Tree & Turf Care Inc $99,035 

Baldwin Line Construction of Maryland Inc $97,978 

Timroon Group LLC $97,750 

FleetPride Inc $97,255 

ExploreLearning, LLC $96,603 

Jewish Social Service Agency $96,252 

Staffing Options and Solutions Inc $96,083 

Midwest Shop Supplies Inc $96,037 

Global Payments Inc $95,986 

Acer America Corporation $95,687 

Rich Product Corp $95,587 

Acme Paper & Supply Co Inc $95,518 

Bowman Sales & Equipment Inc $95,256 

ProQuest LLC $95,136 

E&R Services Inc $94,974 

Jigsaw Learning LLC $94,509 

Aztech Datasystems Inc $94,054 

Maxxess Systems Inc $94,039 

Maryland Association of Boards of Education (BOE Club) $93,198 

Technology Resource Associates Inc $92,926 

Vista Higher Learning Inc $92,758 

Goel Services Inc $92,619 

Towson State University $92,406 

MG Auto Glass Inc $91,833 

Craig Gaulden & Davis Inc $91,187 

TJ Distributors Inc $91,082 

Center for Autism and Related Disorders LLC $90,852 

EIS Office Solutions $89,606 

Zeager Brothers Inc $89,418 

Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company $88,255 

Apex Learning Inc $88,055 

Brinjac Engineering Inc- A Nelson Company $87,679 

Weiss Bros of Hagerstown Inc $87,102 

Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland Inc $86,666 

McDonough Bolyard Peck Inc $86,456 

Linwood Childrens Center Inc $85,603 

Care.com Inc $85,000 

Kingmor Supply Inc $83,258 

CA Inc $83,174 

Integration Technologies Group Inc $83,161 

Catapult Learning LLC $83,117 

Central Jersey Office Equipment Inc. $83,036 

Bobs Overhead Door Repair & Service Inc $83,027 

James Posey Associates Inc $82,570 

Land O'Lakes Inc $82,231 

Quality One Care Home Health Inc $81,680 

Gym Source USA LLC $80,816 

H&S Distribution LLC $80,541 

Cleary Jr, Vincent $79,520 

Hyman, Andrew J $79,495 

Ascend Learning Holdings, LLC $78,867 

Facility Dynamics Engineering $78,510 

C. Archer and Associates $77,910 

Para-Med Medical Transportation Inc $77,910 

National Speech & Language Therapy Center Inc $77,543 

Coughlan Companies Inc $77,223 

Modern Door & Equipment Sales Inc $76,868 

Canon Solutions America Inc $75,113 

Sheffield Pottery, Inc $74,962 

Lord & Company Technologies Inc $74,680 

Total Kitchen Care LLC $74,419 

Weather Control Inc $74,322 

Dr Jose Medina Educational Solutions $74,100 

Waldon Studio Architechts & Planners PC $73,535 

Schwans Food Company $73,346 

Allsafe Elevator Inspections LLC $72,920 

AT&T $72,800 

D & F Construction Co Inc $72,470 

Amplified IT LLC $71,340 

HMH Supplemental Publishers Inc $71,078 

Oxford University Press $70,800 

The Prophet Corporation $70,589 

EDG2, Inc $70,540 

Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. $69,741 

Utah Youth Village $69,358 

IBM Corporation $69,089 

DS Services of America Inc $68,780 

National Seating & Mobility Inc $68,643 

Curvature, Inc $66,898 

Scenario Learning LLC $66,025 

Lashof Violins, LLC $65,864 

Werres Corp $65,622 

Infobase Holdings Inc $65,275 

TF Faster LLC $64,897 

PulseWind LLC $64,529 

Valley Speech Language and Learning Center $64,459 

Best Plumbing Specialties Inc $63,385 

Riverside Paper Supply $61,708 

Multicorp Fire Protection Services LLC $61,626 

Cloud Connextions, LLC $61,425 

Stanbury Uniforms LLC $61,204 

AccuLine Enterprises Inc $60,840 

Donald B Rice Tire Co Inc $60,120 

NOA Architecture Planning Interiors LLC $59,829 

Motorola Inc $59,545 

WeVideo Inc $59,500 

Cedar Ridge Children's Home & School Inc $59,046 

Baltimore Lab School Inc $58,107 

Anthony Lee Associates $58,055 

Shelden and Rush LLC $58,000 

ALTA IT Services LLC $57,972 

F A Bartlett Tree Expert Company $57,281 

KCI Technologies Inc $57,035 

Busy Service Inc $56,992 

Demco Inc $55,972 

ADT Commercial LLC $55,602 

Washington County Board of Education $55,248 

Independent Hardware Inc $54,908 

Maxim Healthcare Services Inc $54,431 

Maryland School For The Deaf $53,742 

Engineering Consulting Services LTD $53,649 

AmeriGas Propane LP $53,500 

General Automotive Servicenter Inc $53,280 

Imagine Learning, Inc $53,000 

Lexia Learning Systems LLC $52,850 

Nicholas P. Pipino Associates Inc $52,692 

Pear Deck Inc $52,537 

4Imprint Inc (Logo iems?) $51,639 

Bowie State University $51,536 

Servpro Of Rockville-Olney Inc $50,927 

Joseph Heil Company Inc $50,715 

Fisher Scientific Company $50,311 

Products Unlimited Distributors Inc $50,154 

Jostens Inc $50,080 

RSC Electrical & Mechanical Contractors Inc $49,900 

Ensoft Consulting Inc $49,883 

Kendall Hunt Publishing Co $49,625 

Alan Tye & Associates LC $49,194 

Waterford Research Institute $49,188 

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (Lawyers) $49,146 

Noland Company $48,752 

S&E Paper Inc $48,468 

Soil And Land Use Technology Inc $48,267 

Intellias Inc $46,842 

Country Pure Foods Inc $46,627 

Automotive Support Services Inc $46,571 

Transform Challenging Behavior Inc $46,230 

Myco Incorporated $46,155 

Crick Software Inc $45,600 

N2Y LLC $45,483 

Digital Information Services LLC $45,202 

Pivot Athletic Training LLC $45,038 

Avant Assessment LLC $44,988 

Accredited Lock and Door Hardware Co $44,966 

Ark Systems Inc $44,704 

JKM Music Group LLC $44,238 

Dempsey Uniform and Linen Supply Inc $44,034 

Carolina Biological Supply Co $43,846 

Syn-Tech Systems Inc $43,650 

SONIC LLC $42,962 

Daycon Products Co Inc $42,831 

Penske Truck Leasing Co LP $42,769 

Reynolds Consulting Engineers Inc $42,666 

The Selma M Levine School of Music $42,225 

Voyager Sopris Learning Inc $42,175 

United Rentals North America Inc $42,111 

Lutz Engineering Inc $41,990 

Parts Authority Southern LLC $41,772 

Make Music Inc $41,740 

School Datebooks Inc $41,591 

Tumbleweed Press Inc $41,561 

ConAgra Brands Inc $41,164 

Newsela Inc $41,155 

Summit Energy Services Inc $40,940 

Calvert County Public Schools $40,835 

Snap-On Industrial $40,708 

RT MacKenzie Inc $38,996 

Super Duper Incorporated $38,912 

BSOFT LLC $38,900 

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. $37,477 

Hughes Group Architects Inc $37,150 

Fitchco Inc $36,279 

Intelitek Inc $35,940 

Professional Startup and Operating Services Inc $35,685 

Global Equipment Co $35,309 

Leonard Paper Co $34,559 

Lighting Maintenance Inc $34,304 

Really Good Stuff, LLC $34,060 

University of Wisconsin System $34,000 

TestOut Corportation $33,936 

Rosen Publishing Group $33,256 

Intac Inc $32,694 

Rodriguez, Kathleen M $32,615 

Greenwood Publishing Group Inc $32,505 

Lincoln Library Press Inc $32,301 

Business Software Inc $32,048 

EBSCO Industries Inc $32,001 

OTC Brands Inc $31,547 

Briggs Chaney Walk in Clinic LLC $30,815 

Green Building Initiative $30,625 

Equal Eyes Vision Services $30,550 

IPEVO INC $30,524 

MSSF Inc $30,508 

Vanguard Modular Building Systems LLC $30,450 

Uline, Inc $30,366 

Metropolitan Washington Soccer Referees Association Inc $30,294 

Triad Engineering Inc $30,117 

EveryMind Inc $30,000 

Socrata Inc $30,000 

Schneider Electric IT USA Inc $29,917 

RAM Enterprises Inc $29,783 

Electude USA LLC $29,292 

Service Photo Supply Inc $29,150 

Anne Arundel Fire Inspection, Inc. $29,060 

Funds For Learning LLC (E-rate consultant) $29,000 

SanDow Construction Inc $28,500 

Montgomery Womens Lacrosse Officials $28,265 

Flocabulary Inc $28,000 

Policy Studies Associates, Inc $28,000 

Aireco Supply Inc $27,843 

LinkedIn Corporation $27,838 

Triumvirate Environment Inc $27,754 

Broadcast Pix Inc $27,748 

Triliteral LLC $27,710 

Multi-Health Systems Inc $27,701 

JPG Plumbing and Mechanical Services Inc $27,538 

Music Sales Digital Services LLC $27,360 

Norton Land Design LLC $27,350 

IXL Learning Inc $26,801 

Chesapeake Treatment Centers $26,706 

Global Engineering Solutions $26,653 

Clinton Learning Solutions LLC (Promethean Board service) $26,433 

WLR Automotive Group Inc $26,426 

Johns Hopkins University $26,190 

Signs & Wonders Inc $26,070 

All American Protective Services LLC $25,852 

LAZEL, Inc $25,636 

Commissioners Of Poolesville $25,453 

McCain Foods USA Inc $25,244 

National Restaurant Association $25,224 

Simon & Schuster Inc $25,106 

Maginniss & del Ninno Architects, PC $25,049 

AASA (Superintendent's club) $25,000 

MCPS interim superintendent to get $295K salary, $33,500 in deferred pay

...Montgomery County Public Schools’ interim leader will receive a one-year salary of $295,000, a monthly travel stipend and police protection if needed...

The contract, obtained by Bethesda Beat, shows McKnight will receive a salary of $295,000, which is $54,100 more than what she makes as deputy superintendent, and $5,000 more than Smith’s salary...

McKnight will receive $33,500 in deferred compensation, and a $1,000 monthly travel stipend.

McKnight will also be entitled to 30 days of annual leave and 25 days of sick leave. She can cash in up to half of those days if they are not used by the end of her term...

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-interim-superintendent-to-get-295k-salary-33500-in-deferred-pay/

Fairfax County, Virginia’s former schools auditor said that when a whistleblower brought her evidence that implicated Cenergistic as well as top school officials, both the whistleblower and the auditor were fired by those same officials.

A major “green” firm called Cenergistic says it’s saved more than 1,000 schools and local governments $5.5 billion in energy costs, taking portions of those savings as fees.

But a new lawsuit, a decade of government investigations, and news reports show that Cenergistic is an Enron-linked, for-profit company that has allegedly talked its way into no-bid contracts after secretly putting school officials on its payroll, and then billed districts for questionable savings whose basis it refuses to explain...

...In a lawsuit filed Nov. 1, 2019, the former auditor for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia, Goli Trump, said she was fired by school board president Sandy Evans in retaliation for pursuing an investigation into Cenergistic that implicated superintendent Karen Garza as well as Evans herself...

… [Goli] Trump then obtained access to school system emails which showed that “it appeared that Platenberg had been paid to take numerous ‘marketing trips’ on behalf of Cenergistic.”..

https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/17/cenergistic-green-energy-enron/?fbclid=IwAR3IEZttRLKAZJXqKSg5817P7COB7PMS-E7w92-XQnduQwYgBFfFE06WF4A

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

Pat O'Neill Expenses Charged to MCPS Operating Budget = $4,793.61

For FY 2017 and FY 2018 through March, Board of Education member Patricia O'Neill charged $4,793.61 in expenses to the MCPS Operating Budget.

The Parents' Coalition has obtained Board of Education expense account records for calendar year 2017 through March 15, 2018.

From the documents we obtained we believe the documents show that Ms. O'Neill traveled out of town on the following dates.

Conferences:

August 18 2017 - Possible Ocean City stay, but BOE members are not listed on the hotel bill

September 21, 2017 - Possible Ocean City stay, but BOE members are not listed on the hotel bill.

October 3-6, 2017 - Possible MABE Conference in Ocean City, MD


Below are the records that we obtained.  Please note that Board of Education members no longer possess personal credit cards.  That practice ended in 2014 when the Parents' Coalition exposed how Board of Education members and their staff were using their personal MCPS credit cards.

However, Board of Education staff still have a MCPS credit card for Board member purchases.

The first document below shows Pat O'Neill's requests for expenses/reimbursements and the second document shows the bills for Board members paid from the Board office credit card.  The one Board of Education office credit card is in the name of staff member Rebecca Gibson.

Pat O'Neill's mileage charges for balls, galas, retreats, lunches, breakfasts...

   2018 Pat O'Neill Expenses by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

BOE Credit Card bills for the time period covered:

   2018 BOE Staff King and Gibson by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

Among the approved cuts was the $25 million that Leggett recommended trimming from Montgomery County Public Schools’ $2.5 billion annual budget.

Question:  How would County Councilmember Craig Rice know whether or not there is "fat in the central office" of MCPS?  The MCPS Operating Budget documents do not even disclose the over $8 million in Capital Budget funds that are used to fund the Operating Budget.  How can he say that there is no "fat" in the multi-millions of dollars in no bid purchases that are made every year?  What about travel, gift, and food budgets for administrators?  No fat? 

...The cuts were focused on reducing funding for the central office and administrative functions, according to the school system.
“The savings and reductions will focus more on the central office and not hit our classrooms,” Rice said. “I want to caution people out there who think there is still fat in the central office—there is not.”...http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/County-Council-Approves-Budget-Cuts/

As superintendent, Dallas Dance spent more than a third of 2016 school days traveling out of state

Former Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance spent more than a third of the school days in 2016 traveling to out-of-state education conferences at a cost of tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, public records show.

During his five-year tenure, Dance hopscotched from city to city and coast to coast, traveling far more often than other superintendents in the region, according to records obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a Maryland Public Information Act request. Dance made the trips with the approval of a series of county school board chairs.

At many stops — from New Orleans to New York, Miami to San Diego — Dance gave speeches touting his initiative to give all students in Baltimore County laptops. In one case, an event sponsor paid Dance $5,000 for a speech, compensation he did not report on financial disclosure forms, according to other records. The school system’s ethics panel twice reprimanded Dance for failing to disclose other part-time work...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-co-dance-travel-20171024-story.html

Inspector General’s Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Montgomery College President

...The November news report showed Pollard had racked up more than $70,000 in travel expenses since 2013, averaging 13 trips over the prior two years. Included in the sum were thousands spent on upgrading seats and carrying extra and overweight baggage, according to NBC4...

Inspector General’s Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Montgomery College President

Inspector General's Report:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OIG/Resources/Files/PDF/IGActivity/FY2017/mcoll_pres_exp_adv_memo_31_may_2017.pdf

State BOE Opinion: PG Board of Ed can not expend travel funds on donations

   In Re:  Prince George's County Board of Education Travel Funds. opin. No. 17 04 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

BOE Keeps Their $170,500 Expense Account, Cancels Back to School Fair

MCPS Cancels Back to School Fair 

MyMCMedia has learned that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has canceled its annual Back to School Fair, which typically takes place the weekend before the first day of school. Students head back to class on August 29.
Former MCPS interim superintendent Larry Bowers informed the Board of Education of the decision in a memo back on May 4th. Bowers said it was a budgetary decision.
“Funding for the Back to School Fair is not included in the Fiscal Year 2017 operating budget, and hence is not scheduled to take place in August 2016,” Bowers wrote in the memo.  “While the Back to School Fair had significant symbolic value for both our district and our partners alike, it only took place given significant financial and human resource investment from MCPS. As we continue to refine our parent/guardian engagement strategy, we also recognize that the resources and tools that we and our partners want to share are best communicated through the staff members with whom the students and families they serve will interact.”...

 http://www.mymcmedia.org/mcps-cancels-back-to-school-fair-video/

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FY 2017 Board of Education expense account from MCPS Operating Budget

How Would Charity Navigator Rate MCPS Spending on Hotels, Conferences, Food, Travel, "Team Building" and Perks?

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O'Neill Tells Parents to Demand Raise in Taxes

At last night's Board of Education Operating Budget hearing, board member Patricia O'Neill ended the evening by telling parents that they should tell the Montgomery County Council to raise their taxes.

"some teams in the county are paying as much as $3,500 a year to rent classroom space" in MCPS school buildings

High School Robotics Teams Pushing for More Recognition From Montgomery County Public Schools

...“If you can support all the other sports in the county, then you should be able to support this as well,” said Sunil Tohan, a 16-year-old junior at Richard Montgomery and a member of one of the school’s two robotics teams. “The teamwork, problem-solving, cooperation and the competition are the same things you learn from being on a sports team. It’s the varsity sport for the mind.”...

...“[The school board members] didn’t realize the scope of what we’re doing. The idea is mainly to start conversations. It’s not going to happen overnight, but if Montgomery County does want to make STEM a big part of its future, we think this is one of the ways they can do it,” Biel-Goebel said...

 http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/High-School-Robotics-Teams-Pushing-for-More-Recognition-From-Montgomery-County-Public-Schools/