May 7, 2024 Background In January 2024, we posted the initial Part 1 which featured a very detailed series of graphs and charts showing how anti-Jewish Hate/Bias incidents in Montgomery County Maryland have increased over the timeframe of July 2022 to October 2024 (inclusive) as compared to Hate/Bias incidents againstContinue Reading
May 6, 2024 – By June Traicoff I was inspired by the Yes/No summary of school board candidate responses from the Moderately MOCO forum, as well as the summary table of school board candidates from the Montgomery County Taxpayers League (MCTL). I will have printouts of both with me onContinue Reading
April 29, 2024 – By Dana Noga – Photos from MCPD post. With the Board of Education Primary Election heating up, questions regarding School Resource Officers (SROs), Community Engagement Officers (CEOs), and security in schools have come to the forefront. MCPS graduate, activist and concerned parent Dana Noga writes aboutContinue Reading
Last week on Friday April 19, 2024, a trespasser at John F. Kennedy High School (MCPS Silver Spring, MD) wielded a knife during related to altercation involving a student. Concern MCPS is Downplaying Incident We received these videos from someone concerned that the letter from MCPS downplayed the incident byContinue Reading
April 23, 2024 Earlier this year, MCPS announced that their school bus tracking app would be launched this semester and that the Pilot was underway with families at 10 schools. Last week, MCPS issued a statement about the cancellation of the release of the bus tracking app. In this letter,Continue Reading
April 18, 2024 We hosted the our first ever in person Moderately MOCO event on April 15 – a Board of Education candidate forum which you can watch here or click below. It is the month leading up to the May 14 Primary Election and you can see a collectionContinue Reading
April 8th, 2024 – This testimony was given to the County Council on the FY2025 operating budget Hello my name is Jason Makstein and I run the blog Moderately MOCO but today I am testifying as a community advocate about various items in the operating budgets. My focus will beContinue Reading
We have just posted our Primary Election 2024 Montgomery County Headquarters which includes all the links and information about the primary election such as: Please take a look and make sure you vote in the 2024 Primary Election and make your vote count!Continue Reading
March 10, 2024 – Anonymous Op-ed What does MCPS have in common with the old Soviet Union? Both were or are good at “disappearing” top staff. The USSR was famous for air-brushing the disfavored out of photographs or even paintings. MCPS simply wipes their names from the organizational chart withContinue Reading
Background and Source Data The state of Maryland reports on per-pupil expenditures Maryland reports on per-pupil expenditures and defines them as follows: “School-level per-pupil expenditures are local education agency (LEA) operating expenditures directly attributed to schools or allocated to schools based on certain criteria and reported as a per-pupil orContinue Reading