June 11 BOE meeting in progress

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One student from Richard Montgomery HS who is a volunteer from Rockville Fire is advocating for Narcan training for all HS students.

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Christine Hendy: "voting on budget, fell short on budget, imperative to work with county council, work on FY 26 budge early, collaborate with unions"

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Jennifer Martin: "over 100 MCEA members, teachers, parents gathered to draw attention to bare bone budget, and your {board]'s passion when are you going to speak and fight? we educators can't save the school system by ourselves, now is not the time to be polite and meet stand up to county leaders"

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Evelyn Chung: "final mcps budget does not meet the needs, mcps should have opened its books transperancy" not there, ask this BOE to mitigate the $30million shortfall, create a transperant process when selecting next Superintendent"

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Julia Rogers teacher in MVA: closure of this program would impact our students, 800 students, at the mva students show progress, 27 on chronic absenteeism list now down to 11 after students were placed either by their parents or home school to MVA.

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Amy Eye: brought a student who is excelling in MVA. student's questions are: don't we count? another student has requested the mva not to close. the MVA stakeholders were promised in Feb that MVA would stay.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Martin: "over 100 MCEA members, teachers, parents gathered to draw attention to bare bone budget, and your {board]'s passion when are you going to speak and fight? we educators can't save the school system by ourselves, now is not the time to be polite and meet stand up to county leaders"

Friendly reminder that this so-called bare bones budget is 99.2% of what mcps requested.

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Victoria Hill: some ES don't have a landline, emergency capability school wide panic buttons, 911 calls could not be made from school. school security assessment tool by department of homeland security

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Anonymous wrote:Amy Eye: brought a student who is excelling in MVA. student's questions are: don't we count? another student has requested the mva not to close. the MVA stakeholders were promised in Feb that MVA would stay.

Also Amy Eye: Amy Eye: the $5M to fund the MVA is important for students like this 5th grader who is too shy to attend in-person school and who gets too easily distracted by the sounds and noise of in-person school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Martin: "over 100 MCEA members, teachers, parents gathered to draw attention to bare bone budget, and your {board]'s passion when are you going to speak and fight? we educators can't save the school system by ourselves, now is not the time to be polite and meet stand up to county leaders"

Friendly reminder that this so-called bare bones budget is 99.2% of what mcps requested.

And obviously it’s not enough if they have to threaten layoffs and increase class sizes. Don’t talk at anyone about woulda coulda shoulda. This is the reality and it’s not acceptable.

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Julia Guillen Williams: survey 4K+ responses on feedback for search for superintendent. on survey respondent could select race ethnicity but latino was left off the survey until the last few days of survey. as a result looks like responses on the survey are from only 1.3% of latino population in a county where 35% of population is latino

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Samira hussein: harrassement against palestinians in schools, ignorance is more costly than education

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student at mcps HS: allocating funding for against anti-black racism, to feel safe in school

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student at wooton HS: N word was printed on xxxx number of pages

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student at wooten HS: why does a student need to do the job of an adult, students don’t feel comfortable at the school, more $ for diversity education