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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]Most boards are volunteer positions that get stipends.  The county council is not a board.  [/quote]

Soooo...you are in the "we shouldn't complain, because, after all, they are only a board, not full time or anything" camp?[/quote]

They have full time jobs and the county is paying one good money.  They knew it was basically a volunteer job and choose to do it.  Don’t like the pay, don’t go for it.  [/quote]

Or we could decide that arrangement is garbage and we should rethink it and do better?[/quote]

So, the county should double pay, so $160k for Mc and double that for the board.  The state, not county decides and it basically a volunteer job.  Maybe if they showed some level of competence vs ruining MCPS.   We should hold the BOE members accountable.  Their income is their problem.  [/quote]

You're not answering the question.

I am aware that the state has to make the structural change to the board and not the county. But that doesn't change the fact that we need to reimagine how the BOE is set up in Montgomery County if we want to hold it accountable for oversight of the school system.

Why would you expect high-quality oversight from a volunteer, underscoped job and use that as a premise for why we shouldn't dismantle the current model and replace it with one that offers reasonable compensation that would attract a pool of candidates who you can reasonably expect to hold accountable for their performance?

The other option is to redefine responsibility of the school board and start shifting some of that over to the County Council, who does have full-time councilmembers with reasonable pay, sizable staff and the control over the funding levels for the school system.[/quote]

You aren't understanding.  The State, not county decides the stipend and its a board, not central office.  You are confusing what they do.  County council is not equal.  Central office runs MCPS and they just approve what central office decides to do without even looking into it.[/quote]

You are the one not understanding. I am aware the state has to make the changes to the BOE structure and I am advocating the state make those changes.[/quote]

Why are you so insistent?  As a BOE member, how about putting the time in to justify it.  Its basically a volunteer job with a stipend.  Don't like it or because you want more while double dipping, too bad.  If anything they should fine the BOE for their poor decisions and financial mismanagement.[/quote]

The state legislature has to amend the code to adjust a county BOE's compensation because Maryland code is where this state job is defined (a county's BOE are employees of the state).  However,  they do so at the request of that county's delegation, which does so on the suggestion of a County Council resolution, with the understanding that the funds for BOE payment come from county coffers.

Many MD counties with much smaller/simpler school systems and much smaller coffers wouldn't want a salary-like compensation comparator of the MoCo BOE with which they might need to wrestle (they have a hard enough time maintaining their own at a couple thousand) in addition to their generally plying the conservative side of political waters.  Their delegations, then, tend to combine to vote down the MoCo delegation request.[/quote]

They tried this, wasting MCPS money and were told no.  Let it go.  [/quote]

The initiative failed because state delegates were jealous that BOE candidates would get full-time status and pay before them. It had nothing to do with the merits of the argument and everything to do with ego, jealousy and petty politics.[/quote]

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