Anonymous wrote:Pretty insane several of the current BOE members voted for Monifa to get her $1million+ payout and moco is about to relect them after they just voted to ax all mcps social workers.

Rivera-Oven is running unopposed. Maybe make the compensation attractive to the kind of individual we'd want to be there to do a better job and we'd get some candidates.

Wolff is slinking off into the sunset while her hand-picked successor is running unopposed -- see the compensation note, above...

Yang and Silvestre are running for County Council, not defending their BOE seats. MCEA chose to endorse early for their Apple Ballot, which usually crowns a winner except where there is huge blowback against an incumbent, with McCarthy a highly involved MCCPTA'er whose skills are there to challenge but whose expressed platform is milquetoast/whose intentions are not exactly clear, and with Lazo another wishy-washy Montgomery College replacement of Silvestre who might be expected to toe the line.

Montoya, Stewart and Zimmerman weren't elected yet when the Beidelman/McKnight thing went down with the ridiculous payout and the subsequent hiring of Taylor. They'll have to own the boundaries/programs fallout for re-election, but, again, without reasonable compensation for the time that has to be put in to the position for someone to be effective, and with the Apple Ballot's influence effectively seating those who place teachers' needs (and insider teachers, at that) over students' needs, who whom we would want would bother to run?

Pretty insane several of the current BOE members voted for Monifa to get her $1million+ payout and moco is about to relect them after they just voted to ax all mcps social workers.

They should pay out the teachers who are fired because they reported crime or were fired because they didn't fraud the grades enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Try again..why not say Silvestre, McKnight, Taylor and the entire BOE? Lots of places are having budget shortfalls. And wasn't there someone specifically hired to be an "accountant" for the BOE, someone other than a BOE member?

Grace improperly signed off on contracts over $25,000, without majority of BOE approval as required. She and Taylor broke the law.

Yet no cries for his resignation?

Are you kidding? There are a lot of people that will be glad when he is out. This bro wore out his welcome a while ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Try again..why not say Silvestre, McKnight, Taylor and the entire BOE? Lots of places are having budget shortfalls. And wasn't there someone specifically hired to be an "accountant" for the BOE, someone other than a BOE member?

Grace improperly signed off on contracts over $25,000, without majority of BOE approval as required. She and Taylor broke the law.

Here are receipts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/parentscoalitionmd/p/taylor-and-rivera-oven-defy-inspector?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what this is about? I don't want to trash talk someone without knowing what they did exactly.

Nobody’s explained just a lot of vague posting. I tend not to believe anybody who can’t back up what they claim. Why can’t anybody explain?

Anonymous wrote:You need 5 votes

Even if you find a miracle BOE member or two who will work FT for $25k ($29k for the President), who will push back on MCPS staff and ask tough questions, it's not enough: you need 5 votes to pass anything.

You only need one person to bully the rest into remaining silent.

You need 5 votes

Even if you find a miracle BOE member or two who will work FT for $25k ($29k for the President), who will push back on MCPS staff and ask tough questions, it's not enough: you need 5 votes to pass anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Try again..why not say Silvestre, McKnight, Taylor and the entire BOE? Lots of places are having budget shortfalls. And wasn't there someone specifically hired to be an "accountant" for the BOE, someone other than a BOE member?

Grace improperly signed off on contracts over $25,000, without majority of BOE approval as required. She and Taylor broke the law.

Yet no cries for his resignation?

You must be new here. There are about 10,000,000 cries per day for his resignation. Spoiler: no one is resigning. Or getting fired for that matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Try again..why not say Silvestre, McKnight, Taylor and the entire BOE? Lots of places are having budget shortfalls. And wasn't there someone specifically hired to be an "accountant" for the BOE, someone other than a BOE member?

Grace improperly signed off on contracts over $25,000, without majority of BOE approval as required. She and Taylor broke the law.

Yet no cries for his resignation?

Any central office positions get eliminated?
What happened to those ridiculous contracts MCPS such as the Kid Museum, illegal vendor payments, warehouse lease, etc? Not to mention all the lawsuits. Elrich is saying this could have been avoided if the tax increase he was pushing for went thru. Screw that. I am tired of the entire state of maryland mismanaging budgets at our expense. "Educational trips to exotic locations, extra paid vacations, raises for office workers......" Read the the effing room - your tax base is getting laid off, many aren't getting raises, our infrastructure is falling apart. We are strapped. I havent had a raise in 2 years and my hours were reduced, as was the 401k match. All in an effort for my company to save people's jobs.
We seriously need someone to comb thru the budget and trim the fat - and i will bet anything that there is still plenty of fat to be trimmed to save teachers jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Try again..why not say Silvestre, McKnight, Taylor and the entire BOE? Lots of places are having budget shortfalls. And wasn't there someone specifically hired to be an "accountant" for the BOE, someone other than a BOE member?

Grace improperly signed off on contracts over $25,000, without majority of BOE approval as required. She and Taylor broke the law.

This is what keeps happening when moco continues to elect incompetent people.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t understand the definition of “under the table”.

covert and usually unlawful

Bingo!

What is this about? Is there a link to an article?