Board wants Monifa to step down

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Anonymous wrote:Dana Edwards, mentioned earlier on this thread, is now on admin leave.

Now this is interesting. Any details or insights on why she's been placed on admin leave?

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Anonymous wrote:So do we think she’ll take the settlement, which I suspect is a pretty penny, or do we think she will choose to get fired so she can say what she wants and sue MCPS? I’m suspecting the former since she’s been mum for a while. I suppose we’ll know before the council meeting. She seems wholly unaware of the havoc she has wreaked on the system, so she may go down fighting. I don’t know who she listens to, but someone should help her understand the situation and her limited options

The contract provides one-year's severance if she's terminated. She doesn't get anything if she resigns.

She should force their hand. It's worth a year's pay.

She’s only entitled to the severance if a judge determines that MCPS breached the contract in a material way. Firing her for cause isn’t a material breach. It’s a shame she’s using reputable people just to get a payout.

She should sue the people who have had it out for her from day 1. She inherited the Biedleman mess and has done a decent job. People are just looking for a scapegoat.

You do realize that if she sues MCPS will be free to disclose all of the derogatory information about her, right? That’s going to make it rough for her and make the people who supported her look pretty foolish.

Doubt that matters. Most of what people say here consists of gossip and conspiracy theories.There not much substance to it.

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Anonymous wrote:So do we think she’ll take the settlement, which I suspect is a pretty penny, or do we think she will choose to get fired so she can say what she wants and sue MCPS? I’m suspecting the former since she’s been mum for a while. I suppose we’ll know before the council meeting. She seems wholly unaware of the havoc she has wreaked on the system, so she may go down fighting. I don’t know who she listens to, but someone should help her understand the situation and her limited options

The contract provides one-year's severance if she's terminated. She doesn't get anything if she resigns.

She should force their hand. It's worth a year's pay.

She’s only entitled to the severance if a judge determines that MCPS breached the contract in a material way. Firing her for cause isn’t a material breach. It’s a shame she’s using reputable people just to get a payout.

She should sue the people who have had it out for her from day 1. She inherited the Biedleman mess and has done a decent job. People are just looking for a scapegoat.

You do realize that if she sues MCPS will be free to disclose all of the derogatory information about her, right? That’s going to make it rough for her and make the people who supported her look pretty foolish.

Doubt that matters. Most of what people say here consists of gossip and conspiracy theories.There not much substance to it.

Hi, Lucy Hayes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dana Edwards, mentioned earlier on this thread, is now on admin leave.

Wow, she was just presenting at the board table yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Who is Dana Edwards?

[Anonymous]

As a poster said, BOE and McKnight are meeting tonight, Friday and next Tuesday. The meeting to review report or whatever with MoCo Council is set for Thurs Feb 8. Should we expect to have reached a conclusion to the McKnight tenure by then?

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There’s a 10 day appeal period that kicks in once the BOE notifies the State Board of Ed that it is removing a superintendent. Assuming they did this last week when McKnight went public with their request that she resign, she probably has until the end of this week in her appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is Dana Edwards?

Chief of District Operations

Overseeing
Facilities
Materials management
Transportation

Also
Labor Relations and Student Welfare and Appeals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is Dana Edwards?

Chief, District Operations, friend of McKnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a poster said, BOE and McKnight are meeting tonight, Friday and next Tuesday. The meeting to review report or whatever with MoCo Council is set for Thurs Feb 8. Should we expect to have reached a conclusion to the McKnight tenure by then?

I’d hope she’d resign by then. Her presence at the Feb 8 hearing would be a 3 ring circus with a bunch of “I don’t recall”, “That’s subject to an ongoing dispute/investigation about my role/personnel matter so I can’t comment”, “we need to be looking forward, not backward” nonsense. This is the point where any leader who cares for her organization realizes that they’re becoming the story and distracting from the work of the staff to right the wrongs of the past…and resigns.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is Dana Edwards?

Chief of District Operations

Overseeing
Facilities
Materials management
Transportation

Also
Labor Relations and Student Welfare and Appeals

and until recently, a Director of HR at central office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a poster said, BOE and McKnight are meeting tonight, Friday and next Tuesday. The meeting to review report or whatever with MoCo Council is set for Thurs Feb 8. Should we expect to have reached a conclusion to the McKnight tenure by then?

We only know the board is meeting in closed session. We don't know that they are meeting with McKnight.

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Maybe someone is actually looking into why we have a former elementary school principal running the Office of Materials Management with no apparent qualifications in logistics, inventory management, distribution, or procurement.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is Dana Edwards?

Chief of District Operations

Overseeing
Facilities
Materials management
Transportation

Also
Labor Relations and Student Welfare and Appeals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dana Edwards, mentioned earlier on this thread, is now on admin leave.

next should be the current QO principal-Beidleman’s supervisor circa 2012-2013

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dana Edwards, mentioned earlier on this thread, is now on admin leave.

next should be the current QO principal-Beidleman’s supervisor circa 2012-2013

yep ask Kimball-she knows all about it