Council hearing on MCPS

[Anonymous]

Council needs to press for release the unredacted IG report. Requesting for the release once is not enough, Council.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can public submit questions? Where, how?

No
Councilmembers do not want to hear from the public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can public submit questions? Where, how?

You can contact your county council members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Council needs to press for release the unredacted IG report. Requesting for the release once is not enough, Council.

The Council could subpoena the document if they wanted it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Council needs to press for release the unredacted IG report. Requesting for the release once is not enough, Council.

The Council could subpoena the document if they wanted it.

But they choose not to. Vote out these Council members!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thursday at 3 PM. The Council's hearing staff is a former MCPS administrator. Why can't the Council find someone who didn't work for MCPS to run the hearing?

Committee hearings are run by the County Council member who is chair of the committee. Kate Stewart is chair of the audit committee. Will Jawando is chair of the education and culture committee.

And a former MCPS associate superintendent put together the packet for the hearing and runs the discussion.

ESSIE MCGUIRE

5 years working for MCPS when Beidleman complaints were coming in and she gets to staff the hearing today?

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/predictable-cover-up-continues-with.html?m=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thursday at 3 PM. The Council's hearing staff is a former MCPS administrator. Why can't the Council find someone who didn't work for MCPS to run the hearing?

Committee hearings are run by the County Council member who is chair of the committee. Kate Stewart is chair of the audit committee. Will Jawando is chair of the education and culture committee.

And a former MCPS associate superintendent put together the packet for the hearing and runs the discussion.

ESSIE MCGUIRE

5 years working for MCPS when Beidleman complaints were coming in and she gets to staff the hearing today?

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/predictable-cover-up-continues-with.html?m=1

Disgusting

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of things the council needs to address here. Essie McGuire is not the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things the council needs to address here. Essie McGuire is not the issue.

Then let Monifa McKnight run today’s hearing at the Council.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thursday at 3 PM. The Council's hearing staff is a former MCPS administrator. Why can't the Council find someone who didn't work for MCPS to run the hearing?

Committee hearings are run by the County Council member who is chair of the committee. Kate Stewart is chair of the audit committee. Will Jawando is chair of the education and culture committee.

And a former MCPS associate superintendent put together the packet for the hearing and runs the discussion.

ESSIE MCGUIRE

5 years working for MCPS when Beidleman complaints were coming in and she gets to staff the hearing today?

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/predictable-cover-up-continues-with.html?m=1

Parents Coalition is right. Essie should at minimum excuse herself from this hearing due to conflict of interest and probably be part of the witness group explaining their decisions and actions.

[Anonymous]

Wake up folks, MCPS, Council, BOE all 'in this together'! BOE acts like they are part of Central office. They work for YOU, taxpaying voters! Hold them ALL accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things the council needs to address here. Essie McGuire is not the issue.

Then let Monifa McKnight run today’s hearing at the Council.

What are you talking about? County Council hearings are run by County Council members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things the council needs to address here. Essie McGuire is not the issue.

Then let Monifa McKnight run today’s hearing at the Council.

What are you talking about? County Council hearings are run by County Council members.

Council staff create the agenda and scope. Council members are too busy to prepare for every hearing that is why they have staff to do the research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thursday at 3 PM. The Council's hearing staff is a former MCPS administrator. Why can't the Council find someone who didn't work for MCPS to run the hearing?

Committee hearings are run by the County Council member who is chair of the committee. Kate Stewart is chair of the audit committee. Will Jawando is chair of the education and culture committee.

And a former MCPS associate superintendent put together the packet for the hearing and runs the discussion.

ESSIE MCGUIRE

Yes, she's COUNCIL STAFF.

And was high-level MCPS staff before. We'll have to see if she utilizes that insider experience to shine light on the issues or to cover them up. My guess, with her being a political operator, would be a targeted amount of the former and lots of the latter. Nice for the council to have plenty of $ not only for their own salaries, but for a relative host of staff, who don't exactly make a pittance.

MCPS has those positions, too, but not the BOE, who rely pretty mich entirely on thoae reporting to the Superintendent and whose compensation accounts for less than 10 hours a week for a skill set that we might hope to be, at a minimum, on the level of a mid-level financial analyst or an assistant school principal. Maybe 3-4 hours a week if you want a principal-level equivalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of things the council needs to address here. Essie McGuire is not the issue.

Then let Monifa McKnight run today’s hearing at the Council.

What are you talking about? County Council hearings are run by County Council members.

Council staff create the agenda and scope. Council members are too busy to prepare for every hearing that is why they have staff to do the research.

Yes, the County Council has staff. Nobody is disagreeing with the factual statement that the County Council has staff. County Council staff do not run the hearings.