Reply to Compacted Math- FYI

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Compacted Math- FYI"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear Discovery education could help with that...[/quote]
I’m honestly surprised that there wasn’t an investigation. Imagine short changing our kids for personal greed. [/quote]

Not familiar.  Backstory/details?[/quote]
The MCPS staff who contracted with Discovery and oversaw delivery of Curriculum 2.0 turned around and got jobs at Discovery. [b]There were some stories about how the RfP process was allegedly design to award Discovery. I don’t remember the whole story, but I think there was an attempt to solve source and a failed procurement that didn’t meet legal requirements so it had to be done over again. What was delivered was not even a complete curriculum but a hodgepodge of worksheets, generic instructions and corporate-speak concepts that students were supposed to learn. [/b]

I’m no expert, but from where I stand the situation resembled very closely an alleged fraud/kickback scheme. MCPS paid a ridiculous amount of money for a product that was substantially lower quality than just purchasing off the shelf text books, which is what they are doing now.[/quote]

Everything bolded is conjecture. What we actually know: senior MCPS staff hit pension age and went to the private sector. Because their engagement in the RFP had been so deep, the procurement was delayed by a year.

There's never been anything brought forward suggesting Discovery was poised to win, let alone what their bid looked like at that point. [/quote]
But it's so much more fun to point fingers and toss accusations![/quote]

Especially at an organization so rife with corruption.  Do I have to remind everyone about the crooked way the boundary policy was altered back in 2018?  Had this policy been brought to the public for review and critique the way that policies are supposed to, the BOE would have seen that most people are against the elevation of diversity as the primary factor.  The boundary analysis tells us this.  85-95% of people would have favored the policy elevating proximity or stability or even facilities use (overcrowding relief) but diversity came in dead last.  This shows just how woefully out of touch the 2018 BOE was with the people of MoCo.  Hopefully the 2021 BOE is better about listening to their constituents.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics