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[quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]MCPS management and its unions have been feuding for years, but they called a (possibly temporary) truce to team up and go for full funding of their budget.  However, most of the council does not believe that MCPS needs every penny of its request and a staff analysis by former MCPS senior executive Essie McGuire backed them up.  The council is poised to give the school system roughly 70% of its increase because they believe that that is enough to fund MCPS’s new collective bargaining agreements.  If MCPS tries to go back on those agreements, they will face condemnation by both the council and the unions.

And what of the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), which staged a sit-in at a council meeting last week?  I asked some of my council building sources for one word to describe their opinion of what happened.  Their responses included distasteful, petulant, bullying, unproductive, destructive and sad.  One source commented, “I have many more words that are not fit to print.”  Another source said this about the union and the school board’s op-ed playing the race and sex cards against the council.

[i]It was more aggressive than it should have been. That plus the MCEA madness was a bad, bad combo.  MCEA and MCPS really did not understand how to operate in this environment.  Neither showed any willingness to play ball until it was too late. Very unproductive.[/i][/QUOTE]

Source: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/05/17/what-will-happen-on-the-budget/[/quote]

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