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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vote in new members. They are all very in over their heads. [/quote]

The problem is most of the new people running would be in even deeper over their heads.[/quote]

Not that she would have every answer in every education domain, but, given her focus on education funding, this is the kind of thing where, as a BOE member, Laura Stewart would run rings around MCPS instead of the current BOE members asking tepid questions without follow-up as MCPS dissembles.[/quote]

Based on what I have been able to find online by searching for her position on issues, the only thing Laura Stewart knows about school funding is that rather than having wealthy real estate developers pay impact fees for their developments to help fund schools, she prefers to force homeowners and other moco citizens to pay for the impact of these developments by increasing our taxes. [/quote]

Eh...You haven't searched much, then, have you? 
 That impact fee bit is a line straight from her opposition, and reflects her general advocacy for housing.  It's the County Council, in its infinite wisdom, that keeps making those impact fee exemptions, over County Executive veto, associated with the housing push, clearly showing where their loyalties lie (and in whose pocket they reside).

Of course that Council bent means pretty much anyone advocating for housing can be painted in that pro-developer light.  Pretty run of the mill to do so in a political campaign.

Personally, I'd agree with the notion that we shouldn't be handicapping school funding, robbing Peter to pay Paul, and that increases to transfer tax are not the right way to make things whole.  Developers would be just fine without the impact tax abatement, but they are content to sit on things until they get a Council like the one we have that lets them have their cake and eat it, too.

Back to Stewart, though.  She's been advocating for school funding for years at both state and local levels.  She's pretty much the most knowledgeable person that MCCPTA has in that regard.  Her public testimony to the BOE usually provides more meaningful information on which they can chew in the couple of minutes that she gets than the hour(s) of MCPS presentations that follow.  And that's considerably less than she's been able to discuss with PTA and other folks outside of the confines of CESC.

You could look for some of that.  Or really anything beyond that which an opponent is saying about her.  Or, you could keep hurling that "raise taxes" trope as if it is just like that and it's the only thing out there.[/quote]

Laura Stewart is a prolific twitter poster and has a wealth of history of her advocacy and work on school funding issues. Just spend a few minutes on her twitter feed to see how deep her experience runs here. [/quote]

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