Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."

The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.

How much is Montgomery Co. spending to fix school background checks? 7News investigates 7News is working to learn how much Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is spending to improve its employee background check process.

How much is Montgomery Co. spending to fix school background checks? 7News investigates @mocoboe.bsky.social

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@mcps
Superintendent and
@mocoboe
skip
@MoCoCouncilMD
Audit hearing on Inspector General's Report on Chromebook Inventory. Important oversight hearing and no Superintendent or
@mocoboe
. Instead,
@mcps
puts forth former long time Council staffer as lead. Really?

Wow.
@mcps
recommendation to schools is to create a COMMITTEE to track Chromebook Inventory. Pile work on teachers?
@mocoboe
IG Audits aren't important, are they? Audit came out months ago, but "memo" just went out in October.

LOL @mococouncil Audit Committee hearing with
@mcps
former Council staffer - who said electric school bus scheme was budget neutral - as speaking for what
@mcps
is doing to track inventory.
@ThomasTaylorEdD
aren't IG Audits important findings worthy of Superintendent attendance?

Happy
@MoCoCouncilMD
Audit Committee hearing today if you want to watch a fun hearing on missing
@mcps
inventory. It's all fun and games when playing with tens of millions of education funding. montgomerycountymd.granicus.com/player/event...

Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.

John Paulson, one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street, owns a stake in the tiny mining business whose value tripled overnight after the news that the US government invested $35.6 million in the company.

Taylor Keeps Finding More Cash. How is Taylor Spending without BOE Approval?
@mocoboe.bsky.social @julieyangmoco.bsky.social
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As a result of President Trump’s suspension of foreign aid, hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies arrived late at regional warehouses in dozens of countries.

Many did not arrive at all. The consequences were deadly. https://wapo.st/4mEo6NZ

HUD website says ‘radical left’ will hurt America in shutdown, raising ethics concerns A bright red banner alarmed federal workers Tuesday morning as shutdown anxiety mounted.

This should go without saying, but it is highly inappropriate and unethical for a government agency to politicize a looming government shutdown in this way.

HUD should be prioritizing serving the public—not partisan talking points.

See the Vendors that have Private Access to Board of Education Members through the Maryland BOE Club Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

See the Vendors that have Private Access to Board of Education Members through the Maryland BOE Club parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2025/09/see-...

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the nation’s first bill banning officers from wearing masks. Now let’s work to bring this change nationwide, reach out to your governors and help unmask ICE!

Former US Judges Defend Judicial Independence as Threats Rise Former federal judges are taking advantage of Constitution Day to speak out against threats against sitting judges.

The fact that the president and his allies are attacking sitting federal judges is concerning.

That's why, in the midst of these threats, 42 former judges published a letter defending an “independent judiciary, free from political pressure.”

As I told Jimmy Kimmel, when is it enough?

House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

Live updates: DC officials to testify as Congress considers bills to seize more control of the District The House Oversight Committee is considering 13 proposed bills that could seize more federal control over D.C. Track live updates.

Watch Live: D.C. leaders are testifying before Congress on attempts to seize more federal control over the District. Track updates here.

If Congress wants to protect democracy, here's what they must do:

1. End the militarization of DC
2. Protect the separation of powers
3. Conduct oversight of corruption
4. Demand transparency of Trump's abuse of the justice system
5. Ban congressional stock and crypto trading

MCPS vape sensors bombarded administrators with false alarms Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Help stop ZTA 25-11 and unlimited cell towers! [Montgomery County Loves to Put Cell Towers on School Playgrounds.] Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

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Report: Nearly half of MCPS employees have outdated criminal history checks MCPS has deficiencies in its background screening process, leading to nearly 13,000 employees with outdated criminal history checks.

Unbelievable, unconscionable. Can't believe this is #MCPS: bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/04/m...

DHS says MCPS is the only school district with a backlog of CPS forms for new hires Maryland's Child Protective Services conducts background checks on new school district employees, but thousands lack that background check.

I support @bnhowe.bsky.social's call for transparency as #MCPS scrambles to clean up its background check/CPS clearance non-compliance:

"I would like to see a monthly report, publicly shared by the school system, that gives their progress on that," Howe added.

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Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.

The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.

RFK Jr. and Trump tell us they want to Make America Healthy Again.

Great slogan. I agree. Unfortunately, they are doing the exact opposite.

Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives.

No more conspiracy theories.  Kennedy must resign.

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans.

He must resign.

Bill Cassidy's line of questioning was clever -- he pressed Kennedy on how he can praise Trump for Operation Warp Speed while at the same time denigrating vaccines.

Here's the beginning of the exchange.

Barrasso: "Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearings you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines. Since then I've grown deeply concerned. The public has seen measles outbreaks, leadership in the NIH questioning use of mRNA vaccines, the CDC director fired ... "

Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines aren’t adequately tested.

He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.

Davies: The truth is Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current President Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag actually.