New curriculum selection process delayed— new RFP must be issues now

[Anonymous]

At least Erick Lang won’t be the one in charge of choosing the new curriculum anymore. I think that is good news.

[Anonymous]

This is really bad. Revising the RFP, providing firms with the required response time, selection committee, presentations by finalists all can take weeks. How is this going to get done before the school year starts? Will any school be able to pilot the new curriculum next year? Erick Lang if he is the one who did this should face sanction and penalties.

[Anonymous]

What they’re saying is you’re never seeing this implemented in the coming school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What they’re saying is you’re never seeing this implemented in the coming school year.

I agree. I work at a school that was chosen to pilot the ELA curriculum next year and we found out on Friday. More information about summer training was supposed to come out today and I had a feeling something was up when it didn't. All we were told was that we would be dropping our current summer trainings (the ones that took literally hours to sign up for because MCPS didn't plan for thousands of teachers to be on at once and the system didn't work) in order to receive 2 days of training on the new curriculum. Training dates have to be set in the next few weeks and I don't see that happening.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, OP.

I suppose we need to be thankful for small mercies - that someone actually found out and halted a potentially tainted process. At least that's honest.

Imagine if they had gone ahead with a back-doored, second-rate, curriculum...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least Erick Lang won’t be the one in charge of choosing the new curriculum anymore. I think that is good news.

He should have his pension taken away for him for corrupting the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least Erick Lang won’t be the one in charge of choosing the new curriculum anymore. I think that is good news.

He should have his pension taken away for him for corrupting the process.

Ha! Not going to happen. No consequences in MCPS. Not for students who misbehave, and not for administration who waste taxpayer money implementing a sh*ttastic curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Total BS. Lang was one of the few sane people left in MCPS. Current upper leadership is clueless as to what schools need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What they’re saying is you’re never seeing this implemented in the coming school year.

I agree. I work at a school that was chosen to pilot the ELA curriculum next year and we found out on Friday. More information about summer training was supposed to come out today and I had a feeling something was up when it didn't. All we were told was that we would be dropping our current summer trainings (the ones that took literally hours to sign up for because MCPS didn't plan for thousands of teachers to be on at once and the system didn't work) in order to receive 2 days of training on the new curriculum. Training dates have to be set in the next few weeks and I don't see that happening.

Exactly. An thin excuse to hide that Navarro has no idea what she's doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think what they’re saying is that the two people who are leaving didn’t disclose their conflict of interest and were the ones choosing the other RFPs, so the whole operation potentially is tainted.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least Erick Lang won’t be the one in charge of choosing the new curriculum anymore. I think that is good news.

I served on a committee once with him and found him to be pretty much a boy scout and actually knew instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Total BS. Lang was one of the few sane people left in MCPS. Current upper leadership is clueless as to what schools need.

Same does not equal competent or honest . In most organizations you have to disclose when you’re in advanced talks with a potential vendor about a job and recuse yourself. What he’s done is corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least Erick Lang won’t be the one in charge of choosing the new curriculum anymore. I think that is good news.

I served on a committee once with him and found him to be pretty much a boy scout and actually knew instruction.

Then how did c2.0 happen and this shady business with conflict of interests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How stupid are these people????

Good grief just let JHU select the new curriculum. Choose one of the many options in the public domain that has been through a University level evidence based peer review assessment and that is used by high ranking school systems in other states.

Why on earth is MCPS looking to buy anything from Discovery Education?? Why does everything in MCPDS need to be a corrupt shit show.

Ahh so Hopkins writes an "independent" report then submits a proposal in the RFP that came from that report. How is that not conflict of interest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How stupid are these people????

Good grief just let JHU select the new curriculum. Choose one of the many options in the public domain that has been through a University level evidence based peer review assessment and that is used by high ranking school systems in other states.

Why on earth is MCPS looking to buy anything from Discovery Education?? Why does everything in MCPDS need to be a corrupt shit show.

Ahh so Hopkins writes an "independent" report then submits a proposal in the RFP that came from that report. How is that not conflict of interest?

Presumably JHU just used the findings of the report to develop technical specifications for the RFP. They’re not going to benefit financially from the Vendor selection.