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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cite your reason for thinking MCCPTA is defending McKnight. Just because they haven’t released a statement like MCEA just did?[/quote]

Cathy Stocker, the Vice President of Education at the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (MCCPTA) said the news of McKnight fighting her ouster came as a big surprise. While the school board has the right to hire and fire superintendents, Stocker said the MCCPTA is concerned that the decision was made without consulting major stakeholder groups.

“They also have another very important responsibility which is to clearly articulate expectations and deadlines and consequences to the executive leading the school system,” Stocker said. “And if the Board of Education did not, in fact, offer feedback and directly express to the superintendent the concerns of constituents or their own concerns, this kind of action runs the risk of looking politically expedient instead of a necessary action that serves their long term strategic plan and vision.”

“Our preference is that our collective time energy and money and money should be focused on the needs of our students,” she added. “And this kind of public spat between the Board of Education and the superintendent of schools is not serving our students.”

The county’s teachers’ union, the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), released a statement on Monday evening which said its members believe the school board to be justified in seeking McKnight’s resignation.

MCEA stated that members have seen “serious problems” with the superintendent’s leadership and that McKnight was “more concerned with protecting herself and her close associates than with doing right by front-line staff and students.”

“The superintendent’s overseeing body, the board, is no doubt aware of confidential information that caused them to determine this drastic step is necessary,” the statement continued. “In declaring open war with the board, Dr. McKnight threatens to further damage not only her own future, but also the board’s efforts to restore the public’s trust in Montgomery County Public Schools.”[/quote]

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