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Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system, will add hundreds of electric bus school buses to its fleet, and will become the biggest operator of electric school buses in the U.S., with the goal of going all electric in 14 years. Under a contract approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education Tuesday, Montgomery County Public Schools will introduce over 300 electric vehicles to its fleet of school buses in the coming years. The goal, county leaders said, is for th...

Hazard pay is ‘sticking point’ in MCPS support staff union negotiations SEIU president says district being ‘disrespectful’ February 20, 2021 | 8:33 pm The president of the union that represents Montgomery County Public Schools’ service workers said the district has been “disrespectful” at times in negotiating facets of its reopening plan. SEIU Local 500 joins the district’s other employee unions — one representing teachers and the other representing administrators — in pub...

Teachers in Montgomery County vote ‘no confidence’ in reopening plan Donna St. George Montgomery County teachers voted “no confidence” in their school system’s plan for reopening in March, demanding that employees get the chance to be vaccinated first and pushing for more staffing, and a “coherent” contact tracing and testing program. The vote followed an emergency meeting Monday of the representative assembly of the Montgomery County Education Association, wh...

Union pushes for more resources, more staff — and vaccinations.

Teachers Vote No Confidence on Return to School Plans; Superintendent Is ‘Perplexed’ Elected worksite representatives from the Montgomery County Education Association “overwhelmingly passed a resolution stating a lack of confidence” with Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education’s unanimous vote to return to the classroom beginning in March. MCEA also asked for a meeting with the BOE. In the resolution, the teachers union called MCPS’ plans inadequate and demanded that all...

2020: The Year in Pictures 12/31/20 8:59 AM On many days during this harrowing pandemic, the Daily Reporter’s Tom Russo has found himself in the middle of many of our communities’ defining moments of the year, from the first days of COVID-fueled panic-buying in March to the first injections of the vaccine in December. These moments are part of a rich tableau of our experiences — COVID-related and otherwise — that Tom chronicled through his lens in 2020. This online gallery features more...