3/23 MCPS BOE Meeting Unofficial Notes – Our FINAL one
This is our final one of these June is retiring from note taking and I wanted to thank June for all the time and effort she has put in watching these meetings and taking notes for others that can’t and to share the information. Notes Link to MCPS Slides https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BZESVZ7497C5/$file/Opening%20Schls%20Recovery%20Education%20210323%20PPT.pdfContinue Reading
UPDATE: MCPS Football Players, Coaches Rally To Save Their Season – Is it Safe?
Update to previous article on this subject: https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-football-season-sacked-by-county-in-surprise-reversal-despite-decreasing-covid-rates/. Title Photo Credit: Julie Anderson Notes on Safety of Football To start, MCPS Coaches are voluntary positions. Most are also MCPS staff and have more likely than not been offered the opportunity for a vaccine. In late January 2021, the National FederationContinue Reading
MCPS Football Season SACKED By County In Surprise Reversal Despite Decreasing Covid Rates
UPDATE: Rally planned for Sunday 3/14 for MCPS Football, Cheer, & POMS. Details on flyer further down. Experts such as Harvard Professor Joseph G. Allen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/08/dont-let-covid-19-keep-kids-playing-sports/) and many others have stressed the importance of sports, especially outdoors, and especially for kids. Many other local school systems have already had outdoorContinue Reading
3/11/21 MCPS BOE Meeting Unofficial Partial Notes
These notes only go through the first part of the meeting about return to school Full MCPS Reopening Slides https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BZ2TUG790EDC/$file/Opening%20Schls%20Recovery%20Ed%20210311%20PPT.pdf Download / View Notes Full Meeting Agenda including testimony https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/PRINT-AgendaDetailed?open&id=BUBKJP51F6DDContinue Reading
MCPS Special Education Advisory Committee – February 25, 2021 – Partial Notes – Unofficial
Download Notes PDF View PDF See Moderately Moco MCPS Reopening Notes RepositoryContinue Reading
2/23/21 MCPS BOE Unofficial Meeting Notes – “Opening Schools in Recovery of Education”
Slides We have reduced our notes to just the text so if you want to follow along with the slides, you can find them here: https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BYJNUS60CCD3/$file/Opening%20Sch%20Recovery%20Ed%20%20210223%20PPT.pdf Full Unofficial Notes PDF Link to Moderately Moco BOE Notes RepositoryContinue Reading
MoCo Percent of Population Vaccinated Getting Closer To MD Counties Average After Being 3rd From The Bottom
UPDATE: After writing this I realized that there was an issue with my methodology. The percent difference was not normalized based on the average. I fixed the calculations and came up with a new chart which I added extra details Updated Analysis Montgomery County looks even better in this chartContinue Reading
2/9/21 MCPS BOE Unofficial Meeting Notes – “Opening Schools in Recovery of Education”
Meeting notes PDF viewer followed by downloadable link Link to Reopening Notes Repository:Continue Reading
MCPS Parent Preference “Survey” Responses School By School Breakdown – Full MPIA Data – Analysis Part 2
Because of the depth of this data, there will be a Part 3 with more analysis. You can see Part 1 Here which was focused on demographics. Note: This Data was obtained by a MPIA request. It is dated December 8 and schools have been working to get responses fromContinue Reading
MCPS Parent Preference “Survey” Responses Demographic Analysis – Part 1
This is analysis of the responses data that MCPS presented to the BOE in December 2020 (Link to slides at bottom) It is Part 1 of the analysis as the Part 2 will be analysis of the full school by school breakdown from an MPIA request. Parent Survey Demographics ofContinue Reading