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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an admin and couldn't be happier with our new superintendent. He was very clear that offices aren't speaking to one another and there needs to be an overhaul. He's walking the talk by having all of these people reapply for their positions. We're drowning in school buildings while some central office people still Zoom into meetings from home.[/quote]

This is what I'm hearing from other administrators as well. They are happy with Taylor, and very happy with the reorg.

At a certain point, there are elements on this board and in the broader community who are just never going to be happy. They will snipe and they will harass and they will mock, and some of it is just trolling and some of it is bad feelings from a job they lost a decade ago, but the rest of us need to ignore the noise and listen to folks like PP who have actual skin at the game at this point.[/quote]

The insiders who know all the names of the people at the CO and follow know all the semi-true drama aren't all that credible. They're always looking to find fault and discover conspiracies that don't exist.[/quote]

Then let’s just focus on the disasters that do exist.  No need to secrets.  The MCPS health insurance system is crashing.  That’s a fact, not a secret.  MCPS is in financial trouble on multiple fronts.  What is Superintendent Taylor doing about these known disasters?[/quote]

The health insurance system isn’t crashing, BUT its financial stability does need to be constrained.  And MCPS needs to have some very real and frank conversations with current staff, retirees, the county and state about this.  They also need to get real clear with their insurance company about what they can eliminate to help while still making the insurance comparable to other jobs.  Because this is having a big impact on the larger available budget.[/quote]

I think you're exaggerating the problem. Healthcare is a mess overall in this country, but MCPS mostly just needs to donate couple things. They need to slightly reduce the employer share of premiums to be closer to other government jobs. And they need to get rid of whatever corrupt entity low-balled the medical costs in order to keep employee-premiums artificially low. Related to that, rhey need to change their practices so there's a carryover fund to make up for differences between the expected and actual health cRe costs, and adjust premiums to refill that fund when there's a shortfall in previous years.[/quote]

You think the entity low-balled the medical costs on their own? They were likely instructed to do so by their MCPS counterparts. The entity in question is AON, btw. And they were likely instructed to lowball by Brian Hull, who feigned surprised and shock when the bill came due.[/quote]

Or just stop what the crackpot ideas.  AON recommend 9-13% which MCPS accounted for and the actual came in much higher.  Further, they didn’t have a large reserve to draw from because the county council made them include it as part of the budget for last year instead of it being a reserve.  Even further, as was already mentioned, healthcare as been part of staff retention so moving the premiums 15% to where they probably need to be creates additional challenges.

What you’re witnessing is school systems near breaking point from the weight of a whole bunch of constraints that leave them very little room to maneuver. [/quote]

LOL very little room? As in $168M EV scheme? That is out of the Operating budget.[/quote]

Since there is little transparency in spending, who knows how much waste and fraud there is.[/quote]

There is not little transparency in spending.  In fact Hull made it a key feature to create more transparency in spending including stating the need to get to providing a program level budget for board review.  And the creation of the new budget Dashboard.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/[/quote]

Rearranging the deck chairs is not transparency. Spending database has been killed.[/quote]

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