MCPS talks a good game about “Success for Every Student.” The new curriculum page on their website declares: The MCPS curriculum serves all learners. It includes the basics — language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts. It supports exceptional children — those with disabilities, the highly able, and English language learners…. I would [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jerry Weast’
Artistically Gifted MCPS Student? Too Bad.
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged art, curriculum, education, Gifted, high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, red zone on May 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Wednesday Night Budget Theater…Redux
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, budget, education, Gifted, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy on January 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Yes, I’m a glutton for punishment. I showed up at last night’s Wednesday’s second Board of Education hearing on the FY 2011 operating budget and the proposed cuts too. The clusters on deck to testify on Wednesday were Whitman, Bethesda Chevy-Chase, Northwood, Kennedy, Einstein, Blair, Wooton, Rockville, Richard Montgomery and Churchill. You can see the [...]
The Myth of “Optional”
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged Center for the Highly Gifted, education, elementary school, Gifted, high school, highly gifted, Jerry Weast, magnet program, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, School on January 19, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Thanks to the Parents’ Coalition, a January 8, 2010 memorandum from Superintendent Weast to the Board of Education has come to light. In the memo, Weast answers some questions from unidentified Board members about his proposed FY 2011 Budget cuts. I’ll leave aside the point well made by the Parents Coalition, that the cuts to [...]
Oh Never Mind: Update on Proposed Transport Cuts
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, Gifted, high school, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, School on January 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Remember how Superintendent Weast’s proposed FY 2011 budget cuts included cuts to transportation? The original proposal listed: Item H: Transportation for optional regular education programs – Eliminate transportation to optional regular education programs outside normal attendance zones, including magnet, immersion, IB, high school consortia, and other special programs. Fees are not permitted for these services. [...]
Discordant notes
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged art, education, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, middle school, music, verbally gifted on January 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Readers of this blog will remember that last year I did a whole series of posts about the proposed — and then enacted — scheduling change at the Eastern Middle School humanities magnet. One of the predictions was that the move from an 8-period block schedule, to 7 periods, and the resulting loss of an [...]
Weast’s 2011 Budget: Protection Racket
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged board of education, budget, critical race theory, education, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS, montgomery county, parent advocacy, School on December 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Christmas/holiday/blizzard stupor is slowly lifting and as the New Year approaches, parents are beginning to focus on the resumption of school and with it, school issues. Foremost, the Superintendent’s Recommended FY 2011 Operating Budget. You’ll recall that the good Dr. Weast presented the behemoth $2.2 Billion (yes, that’s billion) budget in early December. This [...]
Touchy Are We, Dr. Weast?
Posted in In the News, School, tagged high school, Jerry Weast, maryland, MCPS on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I noted, last week was a hot week for education news in MoCo, and nothing got Superintendent Jerry Weast hotter than the news that nary a Montgomery County high school made the U.S. News and World Report “America’s Best High Schools 2010″ ranking. In years past, MCPS proudly fired off press releases announcing that [...]
Irony Alert: Arts Education and the Eastern Magnet
Posted in Gifted, School, tagged advocacy, education, Gifted, highly gifted, Jerry Weast, magnet program, maryland, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy, verbally gifted on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The MCCPTA just sent around the link to this YouTube video of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley extolling the importance of arts education. Meanwhile, those stalwart parents at Eastern Middle School have just notified parents of the status of their appeal to the MCPS Board of Education to reverse a schedule change that precludes students in [...]
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