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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thursday at 3 PM. The Council's hearing staff is a former MCPS administrator.  Why can't the Council find someone who didn't work for MCPS to run the hearing? [/quote]

Committee hearings are run by the County Council member who is chair of the committee. Kate Stewart is chair of the audit committee. Will Jawando is chair of the education and culture committee.[/quote]

And a former MCPS associate superintendent put together the packet for the hearing and runs the discussion.

ESSIE MCGUIRE [/quote]

Yes, she's COUNCIL STAFF.[/quote]

And was high-level MCPS staff before. We'll have to see if she utilizes that insider experience to shine light on the issues or to cover them up.  My guess, with her being a political operator, would be a targeted amount of the former and lots of the latter.  Nice for the council to have plenty of $ not only for their own salaries, but for a relative host of staff, who don't exactly make a pittance.

MCPS has those positions, too, but not the [b]BOE, who rely pretty mich entirely on thoae reporting to the Superintendent and whose compensation accounts for less than 10 hours a week for a skill set that we might hope to be, at a minimum, on the level of a mid-level financial analyst or an assistant school principal.  Maybe 3-4 hours a week if you want a principal-level equivalent.[/b][/quote]

Should be an education and experience requirement to run for Board. At least a Bachelor's if not a grad/professional (e.g. JD) degree plus some years of relevant work experience. Anyone know if MCPS is a bully towards the BOE? Is that the reason the BOE members do not ask questions or press back when given crap info from MCPS? Who here can answer this honestly? [/quote]

BOE members are told not to bother MCPS staff. That from multiple BOE members.[/quote]

Part of the underlying problem.  Apple ballot or otherwise, many elected over the past few decades have been perfect fits for this kind of impotence, doing little to establish true oversight and spending their time pursuing niche agendas.  MCPS is happy to drag out the latter, even if supportive, because it means less scrutiny in broader or more fundamental areas.

BOE should have free rein to pursue information on their own schedule -- not MCPS's -- to facilitate the job they are elected to do.  Any arrangement with MCPS and any Superintendent contract should be stipulating that, at a minimum, and upper level MCPS management should be barred from directing their staff to restrict BOE access to such data, though they should be allowed to de-identify it to preserve the privacy of individuals.

Hopefully, the 3 BOE members elected this year will have a few peers among those not up for election until 2026 to make that the rule.[/quote]

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