MCPS Misused Emergency Procurements to Respond to Beidleman Media Attention
June 27, 2024 Rockville, Maryland – Montgomery County Maryland Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi announced today the release of a new Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Memorandum of Investigation, MCPS’ Procurement of Crisis Management Services, OIG Publication # OIG-24-17, detailing the results of an OIG Investigation into the Montgomery County PublicContinue Reading
MCPS Taps Former MCPD Chief Jones For New Chief of Security and Compliance Role
June 26, 2024 Confirming our previous reporting from sources about a week ago, MCPS today appointed outgoing Montgomery County Police Department Chief Jones (who recently retired from MCPD and was replaced by new Police Chief Marc Yamada) in a new position called the Chief of Security and Compliance (read onContinue Reading
RisuCon – Montgomery County’s Comic Con with Cosplay for the Whole Family, Vendors, Superheroes, Special Guests, and Everything Anime
June 23, 2023 June 21, 2024: Rockville, MD. For immediate release RisuCon is a convention for people of all ages who love superheroes and anime; where families can enjoy dressing up, meeting their favorite celebrities, and taking part in amazing panels and kid-friendly programming. Join the fun August 17th andContinue Reading
New Look Could be Coming to MCPS Security
June 19, 2024 A lot has happened at top positions in Montgomery County this week with MCPS announcing their next Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor and with the County Council confirming the new Police Chief Marc Yamada following the retirement of Police Chief Marcus Jones. Dr. Thomas Taylor and MCPS followedContinue Reading
Get to Know Incoming MCPS Superintendent Dr. Taylor and Provide Input
June 18, 2024 A day after MCPS announced the selection of Dr. Thomas Taylor as the new superintendent (you can find much more information from our reporting yesterday here), MCPS has now sent out a press release via email and text with some information, a video introducing Dr. Taylor (thoughContinue Reading
Engaging the Community: County and State Town Hall Meeting Recap
June 18, 2024 I attended the District 2 County and District 15 State combined Town Hall which I thought was really interesting because it gave attendees a very clear definition of what is handled by the state and what is handled by the county for those that didn’t already know.Continue Reading
New MCPS Superintendent Announced: Dr. Thomas W. Taylor
June 17, 2024 On Friday, MCPS communicated that the Board of Education would be having a press conference on Monday June 17 at 3pm to announce their new superintendent candidate. We began hearing rumors about who the finalists were about a week ago and that a decision was imminent, andContinue Reading
BOE to Announce MCPS Superintendant On Monday June 17, 3pm
June 14, 2024 On Friday June 14 starting around 4:15pm communication began coming out that the “Montgomery County Board of Education will make an announcement about the superintendency of Montgomery County Public Schools at 3:00 p.m., Monday, June 17” along with other information about the budget being approved Full textContinue Reading
Breaking News: Former Republican County Exec Candidate Reardon Sullivan Drops Off Signatures for Ballot Initiative to Limit County Exec to Two Terms
June 13, 2024 According to sources, the former Republican County Executive Candidate Reardon Sullivan has dropped off signatures for a ballot initiative that would limit county executive to two terms. Sullivan lost in the 2020 General Election to County Executive Marc Elrich Given that County Executive Elrich is serving hisContinue Reading
To Do or Not To Do – MCPS Layoff Musical Chairs
June 10, 2024 It wasn’t long ago that MCPS was proclaiming hiring issues and teacher shortages. Then last month, MCPS threw a Hail Mary after receiving only $150 million of the $180 million they requested from the County. As reported by Montgomery Perspective, this was a higher percent received ofContinue Reading