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MCEA is the teachers union.  They endorse the apple ballot, which always seems to get elected.   It is not an accident that MCPS has the highest paid teachers in the area with lots of off-days, simple pass/fail (P or not P) report cards with no teacher comments, and very little parent input.  The state version of MCEA has gotten a law passed that prevents Montgomery County and other counties from lowering the budget without losing state funding.  Remember when Federal govt workers had pay freezes during the recession.  Well, MCPS teachers got a bit raise after only a year or two of freezes.  This is all what you would expect when the union sits down the BOE to negotiate a budget with itself.
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I don't understand the connection between the federal pay freeze, which was the result of Obama caving in to Republican demands that the middle of a big recession was the perfect time to make federal employees pay for deficit reduction, and the county pay freeze, which was the result of Montgomery County getting a whole lot less tax revenue as a result of the big recession.

And I totally support Maryland's law on the maintenance of effort. Without such a law, what do states cut, when the economy goes bad? They cut education.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4011

In any case, it's one thing to say that in your opinion, MCEA has too much influence on the MC BOE. It's quite another to call them the BOE's "overlords".

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