MCPS Salaries $150,000 - $199,999

This information is current as of October 2018.  This information does not include benefits or any other additional compensation.

Name, Position, Base Salary and Date of Hire:

Cevenini	Peter	Chief Technology Officer NS	$184,500.00	7/1/2017
Brice	Jonathan	Associate Superintendent NS	$184,500.00	7/1/2016
Collette	Sherwin	Associate Superintendent NS	$184,500.00	2/5/2001
Dempsey	E. Lancellotti	Associate Superintendent NS	$184,500.00	8/30/1989
Lowndes	Kevin	Associate Superintendent NS	$184,500.00	8/26/1993
Wilson	Janet	Associate Superintendent NS	$184,500.00	7/1/2016
Dyson	Cheryl	Area Associate Sprntndnt NS	$184,500.00	7/2/2007
Morris	Diane	Area Associate Sprntndnt NS	$184,500.00	8/26/1999
Williams	Darryl	Area Associate Sprntndnt NS	$184,500.00	8/24/1994
Milwit	Nicola	Chief Financial Officer Q	$184,500.00	8/28/1990
Hollingshead	Donna	Supervisor O	$184,500.00	4/9/1996
Mugge	Debra	Principal High Q	$172,964.00	9/1/1988
King	Suzann	Staff Assst, Brd Gvrn & Oprt Q	$172,809.00	5/14/2007
Webb	Lori-Chris	Chief of Staff NQ	$168,964.00	4/1/1997
Greismann	Zvi	Associate General Counsel Q	$168,964.00	3/18/1991
Levine	Deena	Principal High Q	$168,964.00	7/1/2002
Evans	Leroy	Principal High Q	$168,464.00	8/26/1975
Fernandez	James	Principal High Q	$168,464.00	8/28/1985
Baker	Jennifer	Principal High Q	$167,964.00	8/29/1995
Johnson	Renay	Principal High Q	$167,964.00	8/27/1991
Zarchin	Michael	Director II Q	$167,464.00	8/25/1992
Cohen	Marc	Principal High Q	$167,464.00	11/15/2004
Lazor	Kathleen	Director II Q	$166,964.00	12/9/1992
Martinez	Jeffrey	Consulting Principal Q	$166,964.00	8/29/1980
Handy	Christine	Administrator Spec Assign MQ	$165,964.00	8/1/2007
Yarbrough	Myriam	Principal High Q	$165,809.00	8/26/1999
Heath	Doreen	Director II Q	$165,464.00	8/21/2000
Song	James	Director II Q	$165,464.00	7/9/1990
Murphy	Scott	Director II Q	$165,464.00	8/25/1998
Bensen	Billiejean	Principal High Q	$165,309.00	1/17/1983
Goddard	Carol	Principal High Q	$164,763.00	8/24/1994
Minus	Eric	Principal High Q	$164,263.00	7/1/2015
Watkins	Todd	Director II Q	$163,964.00	7/1/1996
Thomas	Elizabeth	Principal High Q	$163,809.00	8/29/1995
Jones	Donna	Principal High Q	$162,763.00	8/21/2002
Williams	Arthur	Principal High Q	$162,763.00	8/8/2011
Hellmuth	Robert	Director II Q	$162,309.00	11/21/1994
Koutsos	James	Principal High Q	$162,309.00	12/23/1998
Rubens Jr	Joe	Principal High Q	$162,263.00	8/26/1999
Charley-Greene	Mildred	Principal High Q	$161,763.00	8/26/1999
D'Andrea	James	Principal High Q	$161,763.00	7/2/2007
Owusu	Edward	Principal High Q	$161,763.00	8/24/1994
Stanislaus	Yolanda	Director II Q	$161,263.00	8/25/1998
Morrow	Adrienne	Director II Q	$161,263.00	8/26/1999
Sirgo	Sarah	Director II Q	$161,263.00	8/26/1999
Williams	Stephanie	Associate General Counsel Q	$161,263.00	9/6/2005
Dodd	Robert	Principal High Q	$161,263.00	8/27/1996
Chang-Baxter	Elaine	Director II Q	$160,763.00	8/26/1993
Hazel	Niki	Director II Q	$160,763.00	8/27/1996
Wilson	Eric	Director II Q	$160,763.00	8/26/1997
Dempsey	Mary	Director I P	$160,763.00	8/26/1982
Crouse	Casey	Principal High Q	$160,763.00	1/31/2005
Sinclair Jr	Robert	Principal High Q	$160,763.00	8/25/1998
McClain	Dollye	Principal Asst High NH	$160,357.00	9/22/1988
Dimmick	Cary	Principal High Q	$160,263.00	8/26/1993
Monteleone	Damon	Principal High Q	$160,263.00	8/21/2006
Jones	Joey	Principal Middle P	$159,857.00	8/24/1994
Trenkamp	Kara	Director II Q	$159,763.00	8/26/1993
Moran	Peter	Director II Q	$159,716.00	8/24/2004
Edwards	Dana	Director II Q	$159,263.00	8/24/2004
McGee	Charles	Director II Q	$159,263.00	2/6/2007
Simmons	Michaele	Director II Q	$159,263.00	7/2/2007
Tallur	Krishnanda	Director II Q	$159,263.00	4/1/2003
Lynch	Philip	Director II Q	$159,263.00	8/29/2000
Schultze	Michelle	Director II Q	$159,263.00	8/26/1999
Webster	Jennifer	Director II Q	$159,263.00	8/26/1999
Bayewitz	Michael	Principal Elementary O	$159,215.00	8/29/1995
Edmundson	Gregory	Coordinator N	$159,215.00	8/25/1992
de los Santos	Virginia	Principal Middle P	$158,857.00	7/29/2003
Lake-Parcan	Lily	Principal Middle P	$158,857.00	8/29/1989
Worthington	Louise	Principal Middle P	$158,357.00	9/8/1995
Jones	Dianne	Director I P	$157,857.00	9/23/1998
Boldon	Kimberly	Principal High Q	$157,763.00	8/29/2000
Devan	Matthew	Principal Elementary O	$157,699.00	8/26/1997
Tsonis	Panagiota	Principal Middle P	$156,357.00	9/5/1991
Scriven	Brian	Director II Q	$156,263.00	7/1/2014
Wilson	Audra	Principal Elementary O	$156,199.00	8/29/1995
Smetanka	Joel	Operations Development Mgr J	$156,199.00	8/16/2004
Dawson	Eugenia	Director I P	$156,183.00	8/26/1997
Hayden Williams	Kimberly	Principal Middle P	$155,879.00	8/29/1994
Higdon	Deborah	Principal Middle P	$155,857.00	8/26/1993
Collins	Deann	Director I P	$155,379.00	8/26/1997
Kim	Yong	Principal Middle P	$155,379.00	8/25/1998
Campbell	Tamitha	Consulting Principal Q	$155,210.00	8/3/2010
Jasper	Barbara	Principal Elementary O	$155,194.00	7/25/1994
Boddy	Troy	Director I P	$154,857.00	7/5/2001
Turner	Derek	Director II Q	$154,716.00	12/7/2015
Ingram	Damien	Principal, Alternative Schl Q	$154,716.00	7/1/2016
Berner	Debra	Principal Elementary O	$154,680.00	8/25/1992
Muhammad	Shahid	Principal Middle P	$154,420.00	7/3/2013
Gallagher	Sean	Director I P	$153,920.00	8/1/2000
Townsend	Traci	Principal Middle P	$153,879.00	9/5/1989
Marcus	Kenneth	Principal Elementary O	$153,762.00	8/28/1990
Lewis	Judith	Principal Elementary O	$153,694.00	7/2/2007
Pastor	Margaret	Principal Elementary O	$153,694.00	7/3/2001
Neff	Steven	Director I P	$153,379.00	1/18/1994
Serino	Alison	Principal Middle P	$153,379.00	8/24/1994
Barkley	Khadija	Consulting Principal Q	$153,379.00	7/1/2003
Heckert	Brandice	Principal High Q	$153,210.00	8/29/2000
Chep	Lawrence	Principal Elementary O	$153,194.00	8/30/1988
Macias	Sally	Principal Elementary O	$153,194.00	11/28/1988
Allrich	James	Principal Middle P	$152,920.00	8/28/2001
Coleman	Norman	Principal Middle P	$152,920.00	8/20/2003
Sosik	Nicole	Principal Middle P	$152,920.00	8/24/2004
Bell	Gregory	Supervisor O	$152,694.00	11/29/1993
Lipsky	Richard	Supervisor O	$152,694.00	4/29/1985
LaBatt	Arronza	Executive Director P	$152,420.00	8/29/2000
Eldridge	Cynthia	Principal Middle P	$152,420.00	9/19/1995
Woodward	Barbara	Principal Middle P	$152,420.00	9/25/1992
Ennis	Mary Jane	Director II Q	$152,210.00	7/7/2014
Palmisano	Rock	Principal Elementary O	$152,194.00	8/26/1993
Caplon	Marla	Director I P	$151,960.00	12/1/1988
Bracalilly Stultz	Denise	Director I P	$151,920.00	8/28/1984
Hall	Julie	Director I P	$151,920.00	8/29/1995
Wynne	Christopher	Principal Middle P	$151,920.00	7/1/2002
Franklin	Jeannie	Director I P	$151,879.00	8/25/1998
Zarate	Lynne	Director I P	$151,879.00	11/10/2003
Ffolkes	Annette	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	7/1/2000
Johnson	Teri	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	9/3/1976
Lloyd	Cabell	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	7/1/2001
Sheppard	Linda	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	7/1/2005
Whitmore	Lamar	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	7/1/1999
Zabetakis	Diana	Principal Elementary O	$151,694.00	8/26/1999
Bryant	Karen	Principal Middle P	$151,420.00	8/29/1995
Johnson	Matt	Principal Middle P	$151,420.00	7/16/2014
Staton	Craig	Principal Middle P	$151,420.00	8/26/1997
Yang	Khanny	Principal Middle P	$151,420.00	8/27/1996
Nardi	Christopher	Principal Middle P	$151,379.00	8/27/1996
Brown	Lynn	Principal Asst High NH	$151,208.00	8/2/1993
Carroll	Kathlyn	Principal Asst High NH	$151,208.00	8/25/1992
Posner	Sandi	Supervisor O	$151,194.00	8/13/2001
Shenk	Susan	Principal Elementary O	$151,194.00	8/27/1974
Smith	AnneMarie	Principal Middle P	$150,960.00	8/26/1997
Murray	Alana	Principal Middle P	$150,920.00	8/25/1998
DeFosse	Pamela	Supervisor O	$150,694.00	8/29/1978
Janus	Patricia	Supervisor O	$150,694.00	2/28/1989
Clark	Cheryl	Principal Elementary O	$150,694.00	8/30/1988
Miller	Shawn	Principal Elementary O	$150,694.00	8/28/1990
Oglesby	Jerri	Principal Elementary O	$150,694.00	8/26/1976
Cropp	Amy	Director I P	$150,420.00	8/7/2000
Reuben	Ruschelle	Director I P	$150,420.00	8/20/2003
Chen	Bei	Controller P	$150,420.00	3/19/2002
Bartee	Gary	Director I P	$150,420.00	7/25/2006
Johnstone	Richard	Director I P	$150,420.00	7/1/2008
Davis	Everett	Principal Middle P	$150,420.00	8/29/2000
Dolan Rindner	Ann	Principal Middle P	$150,420.00	8/30/1988
Garcia	Daniel	Principal Middle P	$150,420.00	12/21/2000
LaGrange	Irina	Principal Middle P	$150,420.00	8/20/2003
Slatcoff	Heidi	Principal Middle P	$150,420.00	8/21/2002
Chia	David	Principal Elementary O	$150,194.00	8/24/1994
Gorden	Sherri	Principal Elementary O	$150,194.00	2/8/1997
King	Celeste	Principal Elementary O	$150,194.00	11/15/1989

The Baltimore Post Exclusive: Massive Security Flaw Detected on Baltimore County Schools’ Digital Platform, Exposing Highly Sensitive Information on Students and Staff Members

A massive security flaw has been detected that allowed unrestricted access to highly sensitive records pertaining to students, staff and internal school system data on a Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) public facing website.  

A tool within the system’s BCPS One portal platform, where students are able to access classes, grades and academic resources online, is the source of the breach where anyone with a password – including students, parents, and staff members – have had access to others’ personal student and staff member information, as well as some sensitive school system records.

Some records found go back to the 2008-2009 school year.

It is unknown how long the records have been open to thousands of students and employees and whether there was a larger scale breach of the data.

The Baltimore Post reached out to an information technology contact at Baltimore County schools on Wednesday night prior to publishing this story.  The contact confirmed that the error stemmed from a “share all” function on Microsoft Office 365 and a search bar that permitted any user to search for any subject – without restriction. Microsoft and the district have since fixed the error and are working to identify other areas of concern on the platform...

https://thebaltimorepost.com/exclusive-massive-security-flaw-detected-on-baltimore-county-schools-digital-platform-exposing-highly-sensitive-information-on-students-and-staff-members/

MCPS Salaries over $200,000

This information is current as of October 2018.  This information does not include benefits or any other additional compensation.

Name, Position, Base Salary and Date of Hire:

As Student Enrollment Slows MCPS Officials Take Another Look At The Budget

Updated at  2:48 p.m. on May 24th

For the second year in a row, Montgomery County Public school officials over projected the number of new students that would be enrolling in the district. This could mean less funding in the future, says Superintendent Jack Smith.

The Montgomery County Council Thursday finalized their $5.8 billion budget, despite the projected drop in students, the council was able to find funding for the school system through a combination of state and local contributions. While the formula fixes the problem, for now, it means less money in future fiscal years. The state is changing its funding formula starting in the fiscal year 2020, which could also mean less money allocated to county schools in coming years.

“This year we built a budget based on expecting about 1,200 new students next September,” Smith said. “We’re actually thinking at this point in the year we’re getting 700 or 800.”

For the past 10 years, county schools increased by about 2,000 new students every year. There were a total of 159,010 students enrolled in 2017 and 161,546 in 2018. While that enrollment is more, year over year, it was less than MCPS expected to have.

“We certainly don’t want to go to where we have a loss of student population,” Smith said...

https://wamu.org/story/19/05/23/second-year-of-student-growth-decline-for-mcps-could-spell-trouble-for-funding/

Mont. Co. Board of Ed. Keeps "Equity" Alive at Kennedy HS with Exorbitant $143.50 Mandatory Graduation Fee! "All means all" except at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring.

The "historic" Montgomery County Board of Education is keeping alive the male tradition of ripping off students in Silver Spring.  The all woman Board of Education has continued the illegal practice of allowing local high school principals to set ANY mandatory fee for seniors to attend their own FREE public high school graduation.  As in past years, Kennedy High School in Silver Spring tops the list of fees by charging seniors $143.50 to attend their own free public high school graduation.  If students don't pay, they can't attend their own graduation.

The great women "leaders" on the Board of Education are fine with this and sit back in their brand new leather swivel chairs and claim to be interested in equity.

But actions speak louder than words and this all women Board of Education is no different than the male dominated Boards of Education in the past.  This Board of Education is fine with students at Kennedy High School paying $143.50 to attend their own graduation while students at Poolesville High School pay $27.50.  

As a reminder, senior dues and graduation fees do not exist in Montgomery County or in Maryland. No such fees have ever been authorized by the Maryland legislature or the Montgomery County Board of Education.  The illegal graduation fees found in MCPS are set by the local principal and often include a slush fund for expenses not detailed in any publicly available documents.

Here is what 2019 MCPS Seniors are being forced to pay to attend their own MCPS free public school graduations.  If the fees were legal, they would be authorized by a governing body, in compliance with the Maryland Constitutions guarantee of a free public education, and uniform across all high schools.

Shooting in front of Christa McAuliffe Elementary School today at about 1 p.m.

Montgomery County MD Police scanner

SHOOTING
12500 Wisteria Dr, Germantown. (in front of the school )
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Caller / witness reports a male is yelling for help and screaming he is being shot at. 
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Units on scene. CONFIRMED SHOOTING.... Requesting Christa mcauliffe elementary school on lock down ref the shooting in the area. Victim uncooperative. Shots were fired at victim's vehicle. Additional units and K-9 responding for area perimeter.
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LOOKOUT: 2 Black males, Both 17yo, red hoodie, One Armed with a handgun. Last seen in running towards the area of Amish market & Outback. Not clear on second.
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Suspect spotted in the area by officers, perimeter setup.
Red hoodie Suspect AT GUNPOINT & in custody, Another outstanding.

Mother Says Autistic Son Was Restrained, Put in Handcuffs After Episode on @MCPS School Bus

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mother-says-autistic-son-was-restrained-put-in-handcuffs-after-episode-on-school-bus/

New Maryland law permanently increases passing stopped school bus fine to $500

FOX5 Reports on @MCPS failed No Bid Bus Camera program

IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTION OR MONEY GRAB? Maryland is fining people up to $500 if they don't stop for school buses letting children off. With expanding camera programs, many don't know they've been caught until they get a ticket in the mail. What do you think? 🚸📸💰 @fox5dc pic.twitter.com/AttHnCuhDM

— Anne Cutler (@AnneCutler) June 5, 2019

Man Accused of Raping Girl Was Working at Wheaton High School

A Prince George’s County man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in Wheaton last month was working on a construction project for the Montgomery school system, but was not authorized for the job because of past felony convictions, according to the school system.

In a letter sent to Wheaton High School and Thomas Edison High School of Technology families on Monday, the school system said James Booker, a 59-year-old from Upper Marlboro who was arrested after allegedly raping a child outside her home, was working on a construction project at athletic fields shared by the two schools.

Police said a 12-year-old girl was walking home from school in the pouring rain May 23 when Booker drove alongside her and offered a ride, took her to her house and parked. Booker sexually assaulted her as they sat in the parked car, police said.

The child told her parents about the assault and Booker was arrested at work five days later, according to police.

Booker has prior robbery and drug distribution convictions on his record, according to the school system, and he “was not cleared to be in any MCPS school nor to have direct contact with students,” Edison principal Shawn Krasa said in the letter.

Krasa said a school system background check revealed his prior felony convictions. The letter does not indicate when or why the school system conducted the background check.

Based on those convictions, state law would prohibit Booker from working unsupervised on school grounds...

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/man-accused-of-raping-girl-was-working-unauthorized-at-montgomery-schools/

Police: Man charged with rape of 12-year-old girl in Wheaton

A man is facing rape and sex offense charges after police said he drove a 12-year-old girl to her Wheaton, Maryland, home and assaulted her in his car last week.

James Allen Booker, 59, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged with one count each of second-degree rape and third-degree sex offense, Montgomery County police said Tuesday. He was charged in connection to the sex assault that happened May 23.

Police said on that day, the 12-year-old girl was walking home from school during a thunderstorm when Booker pulled up in a car alongside her and asked her if she wanted a ride home. They did not know each other, police added.

The girl accepted the offer, got into his car and gave him her home address. Booker then drove her to her home, but when he parked in front of her residence, police said he sexually assaulted the girl...

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/05/police-man-charged-with-rape-of-12-year-old-girl-in-wheaton/

Is Summer Learning Loss Real?

Every summer, the news is filled with stories about summer learning loss. The warnings sound dire: two months of math learning lost for most students every summer, and two to three months of reading learning lost for low-income students, according to the National Summer Learning Association. By the ninth grade, “summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two-thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low-income children and their middle-income peers,” the association says. There can be no doubt about it: as American children lounge poolside, watch too much television, and play too many video games, most are forgetting what they learned in school last year, and low-income students are falling even further behind.

It sounds plausible. But how reliable are these claims? How many of these findings can be replicated? Is summer learning loss really a thing?

I used to be a big believer in summer learning loss. After all, children’s home lives can be pretty different. Some children live in big houses with one sibling and two college-educated parents. Others children live in small run-down apartments with several siblings competing for time with a single parent who may not have finished high school. We know that these differences make a mark in early childhood; we know that poor children are already behind academically by the time they start kindergarten. Why wouldn’t family disadvantages have the same negative effects when children return home for summer vacation?

But my belief has been shaken. I’m no longer sure that the average child loses months of skills each year, and I doubt that summer learning loss contributes much to the achievement gap in ninth grade.

Several things happened to challenge my faith. One is that my colleagues and I tried to replicate some of the classic results in the summer learning literature—and failed. Sure, the patterns were present on one test—the one used in the best-known study of summer learning. But that study is 30 years old, and we couldn’t replicate its results using modern exams. And it turned out that the test from that study had problems, which had been debated long ago and then, over time, forgotten...

...But if the new questions are in the middle, where most rich children can answer them and most poor children cannot, then the percentage gap between rich and poor children will grow bigger than 20 percentage points. Depending on what questions you add, you can get any gap that you want...

https://www.educationnext.org/is-summer-learning-loss-real-how-i-lost-faith-education-research-results/

MCPS Outlines Plan To Increase Access to ‘Choice Programs’

...Roughly 1,000 students apply each year for about 100 seats in the school’s IB program.

In response to the demand for IB programming and the Richard Montgomery High School model, the school system will expand the program to three additional high schools with existing IB programs – Watkins Mill, John F. Kennedy and Springbrook – potentially tripling the number of available seats, beginning in the 2020-2021 academic year...

 https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-outlines-plan-to-increase-access-to-choice-programs/