September 5, 2024 Moderately MOCO is cosponsoring a virtual Montgomery county board of education candidate forum on September 19 at 7 PM! After the success of our in person forum before the primary, we are teaming up with several other cohosts to put on a virtual forum that will beContinue Reading
August 26, 2024 As most of our followers are probably aware, today marks the first day of the 2024-2025 school year for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). Get and Stay in the Loop This article will contain all the links you need to start the year with knowledge in handContinue Reading
July 30, 2024 – by Liz Simon Under Maryland law, each Maryland board of education is required to have an ethics policy that establishes standards of conduct for school system employees, school officials, Board of Education members, and candidates for election to the Board of Education. Montgomery County’s Board ofContinue Reading
July 22, 2024 Last month it came out Dr. Monifa McKnight (former MCPS Superintendent who was paid over $1.3 million as part of her resignation) took a newly created position at The University of Maryland, College Park as Dean’s Fellow and Superintendent in Residence. We can now confirm Dr. McKnight’sContinue Reading
July 19, 2024 Over recent weeks, there has been a ton of discussion about the closing of the Montgomery Virtual Academy (including a hybrid in person/online discussion with Dr. Taylor). According to advocates, the majority of testimony at the BOE meeting this week was for the need to reinstate MVAContinue Reading
July 11, 2024 Because the Board of Education only posts these listings to X (formerly known as Twitter) and their website, we make a habit of posting the links for people who don’t regularly check those sources to be able to sign up for public comment. Per the MoCo BOE:Continue Reading
In part one of this series, we used AI to iterate on the massive number of responses to the new MCPS superintendent’s survey (still open until 7/5/2024). He also shared the full results in an email that you can see here. However, it was noticed that the word counts fromContinue Reading
July 3, 2024 Background New MCPS Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor started out his with openness to community input by sending out a survey to be taken by all: students, teachers, parents, and everyone else about MCPS. Dr. Taylor also promised an appeal to transparency by making the anonymized answers publicContinue Reading
On July 1, 2024 Montgomery County Board of Education formally installed Praneel Suvarna as it’s 47th Student member of the Board of Education (SMOB). See more from MCPS after this video interview that we did with Praneel when he was a finalist for the position: Per MCPS: “I am honoredContinue Reading
June 30, 2024 On her last day, Interim Superintendent Dr. Monique Felder sent out the following email (Note that new Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor starts tomorrow): “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Dear MCPS Colleagues and Families, As IContinue Reading