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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K.  We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.[/quote]

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously. [/quote]

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?[/quote]

If they’re not going to have full responsibility it doesn’t need to be a full-time job. [b]I don’t need to pay for them to get more briefings on the minutiae of third-grade math curriculum. [/b]

There’s no reason government has to keep the same structure. This isn’t working. [/quote]

DP.  Right.  [b]Because approving a good curriculum isn't important and we should keep them to rubber-stamping whatever MCPS puts in front of them. [/b]:roll:

Have you watched many BOE meetings?  Noticed how much gets dumped into presentations, there, but how many key pieces of information are left out?  Seen the breadth of concern in public testimony that they rarely have time to discuss? 
Realized that that is a fraction of the public's desired interaction because of a 2-minute limit and limited signup slots (that tend to get booked within hours of their being available)? Extrapolated the time it would take to make properly informed decisions?

It would be at least a full time professional's job (not talking just 40 hours, here) to do what we expect them to be able to do.  That's if they had a full staff.  And without the additional work of a taxing authority, though I don't think your idea, there, isn't worthy of consideration.

$25k is insulting versus the expectation and $60k is little better.  If we want them to do an amount of work similar to that performed by the Council, pay them like it.[/quote]

No, I don’t want an elected official determining curriculum. I want people with advanced degrees in education doing that. Fortunately, MCPS has a lot of those.

I want the board to hire a qualified chief executive and to ensure the chief executive hires a qualified chief financial officer, a qualified chief compliance officer, a qualified chief legal officer, a qualified chief operating officer, a qualified chief human capital officer, a qualified general counsel, and a qualified chief academic officer. I want the board to establish a direct line of communication with the chief compliance officer, and I want the board to have an office to receive complaints from whistleblowers so that those complaints can be referred to the board, the IG, and law enforcement (as appropriate). I want the board to establish clear policies and clear goals and to hold people accountable when goals aren’t met and policies aren’t followed. That’s what a board does.[/quote]

Will you run? The deadline's tomorrow![/quote]

I think most people agree with the posters who think the board should be diving deep into the curriculum, so there’s not much point. [/quote]

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