Strengthen Education
✔ Establish an MCPS Inspector General dedicated solely to MCPS. Officials insist property taxes must be raised to fund MCPS’s $3.8 Billion budget, even though student enrollment is in decline. MCPS needs a solely dedicated Inspector General to alert the Board to potential problems to avoid costly expenditures of the past -- legal and public relations fees, questionable contracts, building repairs and sexual harassment buyouts. Requires state legislation.
✔ Allow only voters living in a School District to vote for their District member on the School Board. At-large School board members would continue to be elected by all voters in the county. MCPS is the only large Maryland school system that requires all Board members be elected by all voters in the county. To change requires a local bill in the General Assembly.
✔ Promote civics education that celebrates, not denigrates America and explains how America prospers from the achievements of individuals - Jews, Blacks, and migrants from everywhere in the world – working together. Let’s help migrants assimilate by celebrating the benefits of freedom and responsibility that comes with being a US citizen.
✔ Provide low-income students with more academic support by increasing MCPS student interventions and tutoring in low-income public schools and by increasing state funding for BOOST scholarships at nonpublic schools. Montgomery County has 27 Catholic, Jewish and other schools with BOOST students. Maryland should opt into the federal Education Freedom Scholarship tax credit program so residents can help Maryland nonprofit organizations help low-income families pay for education-related expenses such as tutoring, specialized services, book and school tuition.
✔ Allow only voters living in a School District to vote for their District member on the School Board. At-large School board members would continue to be elected by all voters in the county. MCPS is the only large Maryland school system that requires all Board members be elected by all voters in the county. To change requires a local bill in the General Assembly.
✔ Promote civics education that celebrates, not denigrates America and explains how America prospers from the achievements of individuals - Jews, Blacks, and migrants from everywhere in the world – working together. Let’s help migrants assimilate by celebrating the benefits of freedom and responsibility that comes with being a US citizen.
✔ Provide low-income students with more academic support by increasing MCPS student interventions and tutoring in low-income public schools and by increasing state funding for BOOST scholarships at nonpublic schools. Montgomery County has 27 Catholic, Jewish and other schools with BOOST students. Maryland should opt into the federal Education Freedom Scholarship tax credit program so residents can help Maryland nonprofit organizations help low-income families pay for education-related expenses such as tutoring, specialized services, book and school tuition.