Board wants Monifa to step down

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Anonymous wrote:Settlement of FEW YeARS? What?

That would be crazy. She’s only entitled to 1 year of pay under her contract.

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Anonymous wrote:The Moco 360 article is alarming on a number of fronts. We have a school district that is at least $50 million in the red this fiscal year (maybe more, probably) and a superintendent focused on negotiating her separation agreement with the BOE. Many leaders appointed by the superintendent are problematic, per the article.

Who does the board appoint as interim superintendent when the time comes?

Honestly, this is the biggest conundrum we face. Brian Hull, who was named acting sup when Monifa was out on sick leave is not a good option, since he's at the heart of many of the scandals rocking MCPS including:

- Massive safety and security failures
- The Khalid Walker retaliation and meddling
- The budget deficits

And now, Stephanie Sheron has been implicated as being a McKnight acolyte so she's tainted too. I don't know who's up next. The bench is nonexistent.

You need new leadership to build up the bench. McKnight will just continue to hire her buddies.

What if the board brought back Scott Joftus for an interim super appointment? He actually has expertise in this field. (Yes, I know the Kid Museum-haters will not go for this idea.)

+1M; would love it if Joftus were appointed for this role & know he cares deeply about the district. Would be a great play.

This. And bring in some good principals who left this year to help him. I would love to see Dr. Cohen who left Seneca Valley a few months ago to help out.

The same Joftus who was on the board of ed previously? I thought he lost his election by 70 points. Why would the BOE have confidence that he’s the right person for the job when he had such a low level of confidence from the public? They picked him once to fill a vacancy and he did such a poor job that voters threw him out. You think they’d run it back with him and pick him again for another position?

For one thing, interim superintendent is an entirely different job than board of education member. His expertise is in working with school systems and their staffs, not with constituent services.

Constituent services? He wasn’t serving as mayor or congressman where he needed to make sure constituents got their passports in time or a tour of the capitol. His job was literally to “work with the school system and its staff” in a way that helped the school system. And he failed miserably at it. He barely got more votes than the guy who filed to run in district 1 and then never answered a single voter questionnaire, never campaigned, and never responded to media inquiries. You have to be pretty bad at your job as an incumbent to not only lose your election but to barely get more votes than a ghost. Stop trying to make Scott Joftus for interim super happen. The BOE gave him a shot when they picked him to fill a vacancy last time and he failed. Miserably.

I think the election was more about Julie Yang being a relentless campaigner and getting the Apple Ballot endorsement.

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Bring in new folks!!!

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Anonymous wrote:The Moco 360 article is alarming on a number of fronts. We have a school district that is at least $50 million in the red this fiscal year (maybe more, probably) and a superintendent focused on negotiating her separation agreement with the BOE. Many leaders appointed by the superintendent are problematic, per the article.

Who does the board appoint as interim superintendent when the time comes?

Honestly, this is the biggest conundrum we face. Brian Hull, who was named acting sup when Monifa was out on sick leave is not a good option, since he's at the heart of many of the scandals rocking MCPS including:

- Massive safety and security failures
- The Khalid Walker retaliation and meddling
- The budget deficits

And now, Stephanie Sheron has been implicated as being a McKnight acolyte so she's tainted too. I don't know who's up next. The bench is nonexistent.

You need new leadership to build up the bench. McKnight will just continue to hire her buddies.

What if the board brought back Scott Joftus for an interim super appointment? He actually has expertise in this field. (Yes, I know the Kid Museum-haters will not go for this idea.)

+1M; would love it if Joftus were appointed for this role & know he cares deeply about the district. Would be a great play.

This. And bring in some good principals who left this year to help him. I would love to see Dr. Cohen who left Seneca Valley a few months ago to help out.

The same Joftus who was on the board of ed previously? I thought he lost his election by 70 points. Why would the BOE have confidence that he’s the right person for the job when he had such a low level of confidence from the public? They picked him once to fill a vacancy and he did such a poor job that voters threw him out. You think they’d run it back with him and pick him again for another position?

For one thing, interim superintendent is an entirely different job than board of education member. His expertise is in working with school systems and their staffs, not with constituent services.

Constituent services? He wasn’t serving as mayor or congressman where he needed to make sure constituents got their passports in time or a tour of the capitol. His job was literally to “work with the school system and its staff” in a way that helped the school system. And he failed miserably at it. He barely got more votes than the guy who filed to run in district 1 and then never answered a single voter questionnaire, never campaigned, and never responded to media inquiries. You have to be pretty bad at your job as an incumbent to not only lose your election but to barely get more votes than a ghost. Stop trying to make Scott Joftus for interim super happen. The BOE gave him a shot when they picked him to fill a vacancy last time and he failed. Miserably.

I think the election was more about Julie Yang being a relentless campaigner and getting the Apple Ballot endorsement.

Thanks for your viewpoint, Scott. Don’t worry - you did a swell job.

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

She had been director of certification and staffing in HR from 2016-21.

That does not make you able to be chief of operations. Overseeing departments that you have no first hand knowledge of or have ever worked in.

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Anonymous wrote:The Moco 360 article is alarming on a number of fronts. We have a school district that is at least $50 million in the red this fiscal year (maybe more, probably) and a superintendent focused on negotiating her separation agreement with the BOE. Many leaders appointed by the superintendent are problematic, per the article.

Who does the board appoint as interim superintendent when the time comes?

Honestly, this is the biggest conundrum we face. Brian Hull, who was named acting sup when Monifa was out on sick leave is not a good option, since he's at the heart of many of the scandals rocking MCPS including:

- Massive safety and security failures
- The Khalid Walker retaliation and meddling
- The budget deficits

And now, Stephanie Sheron has been implicated as being a McKnight acolyte so she's tainted too. I don't know who's up next. The bench is nonexistent.

You need new leadership to build up the bench. McKnight will just continue to hire her buddies.

What if the board brought back Scott Joftus for an interim super appointment? He actually has expertise in this field. (Yes, I know the Kid Museum-haters will not go for this idea.)

+1M; would love it if Joftus were appointed for this role & know he cares deeply about the district. Would be a great play.

This. And bring in some good principals who left this year to help him. I would love to see Dr. Cohen who left Seneca Valley a few months ago to help out.

The same Joftus who was on the board of ed previously? I thought he lost his election by 70 points. Why would the BOE have confidence that he’s the right person for the job when he had such a low level of confidence from the public? They picked him once to fill a vacancy and he did such a poor job that voters threw him out. You think they’d run it back with him and pick him again for another position?

For one thing, interim superintendent is an entirely different job than board of education member. His expertise is in working with school systems and their staffs, not with constituent services.

Constituent services? He wasn’t serving as mayor or congressman where he needed to make sure constituents got their passports in time or a tour of the capitol. His job was literally to “work with the school system and its staff” in a way that helped the school system. And he failed miserably at it. He barely got more votes than the guy who filed to run in district 1 and then never answered a single voter questionnaire, never campaigned, and never responded to media inquiries. You have to be pretty bad at your job as an incumbent to not only lose your election but to barely get more votes than a ghost. Stop trying to make Scott Joftus for interim super happen. The BOE gave him a shot when they picked him to fill a vacancy last time and he failed. Miserably.

I think the election was more about Julie Yang being a relentless campaigner and getting the Apple Ballot endorsement.

Is that why Joftus got the fewest votes of any BOE candidate since 2014, aside from the ghost candidate he barely beat? She must have been a historically relentless and good campaigner.

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

She had no sense of how to run any damn thing. She was wildly ineffective.

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

She had no sense of how to run any damn thing. She was wildly ineffective.

Ah, but she WAS a part of the inner circle!

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What about Brian Hull? Would he be acting super if she resigns?

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Ugh sickening

You mess up, you get rewarded

MCPS is gonna MCPS. What's new?

I really hope people vote out incumbents on the BOE this time around. I know I will be doing that, as I do every time.

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Anonymous wrote:They definitely got what was coming to them. Dana Edwards, then Dana Davison was a well known bully when she was principal at Martin Luther King MS. She bullied her teachers constantly. She completely ignored ADA accommodations and would retaliate against them by placing them on PAR. Several complaints were made with the union and the county. What did the county do instead of firing her? They keep on promoting her...That's why she thought she could get away with the Beidleman mess, her best friend! Pathetic!

I was puzzled why she was appointed to chief. She has no operational background and had never been a Director in any of the Divisions

She had been director of certification and staffing in HR from 2016-21.

So maybe she was partly responsible for the inaction in reforming the compliance office despite multiple warnings to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:Settlement of FEW YeARS? What?

That would be crazy. She’s only entitled to 1 year of pay under her contract.

Rumor is the settlement will be around $750k. Let's see.

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Ugh sickening

You mess up, you get rewarded

MCPS is gonna MCPS. What's new?

I really hope people vote out incumbents on the BOE this time around. I know I will be doing that, as I do every time.

You can only vote new people in. And you can only vote new people in if they file their candidacies pronto.

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Scott Joftus is not certified to be a super nor is Nancy Navarro so those are not gonna happen.

They aren’t going to pick Brian Hull because Khalid Walker named him and he’s too close to the current scandal.

They will bring in someone from the outside—probably someone who worked for MCPS before but left to grow their career. There are a lot of possibilities so it will depend who is available and willing.

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Anonymous wrote:Scott Joftus is not certified to be a super nor is Nancy Navarro so those are not gonna happen.

They aren’t going to pick Brian Hull because Khalid Walker named him and he’s too close to the current scandal.

They will bring in someone from the outside—probably someone who worked for MCPS before but left to grow their career. There are a lot of possibilities so it will depend who is available and willing.

What does that entail?