Montgomery will expand from five council districts to seven in 2022
January 27, 2021 | 9:51 pm
January 28, 2021
Montgomery County approved two new County Council members in November, which means two more districts.
The county’s five districts will now need to be divided into seven, starting with the 2022 election. The council will expand from 9 to 11 members.
There are currently four at-large members and five district members.
To determine how the boundaries will be drawn for 2022, the County Council appointed an 11-member Redistricting Commission on Tuesday to provide a plan and report by Nov. 15.
The county received 108 applications to serve on the commission. The county picked 32 people to be interviewed and chose 11 for the commission.
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“Right now, many educators are trying to get vaccines and are being told that they are not yet available in their counties. Safety measures that public health experts have recommended are yet to be properly implemented in too many schools,” the teachers union said in a Facebook post Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, in a national day of action, the leaders of more than a dozen unions and associations representing more than 48,000 public school teachers and educators across multiple school districts in the greater Washington, DC region united together behind the demand for a shared set of reopening standards to protect students.
By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Unions with more than 48,000 educators and staff in the D.C. area are hosting a “National Day of Resistance” on Tuesday to urge regional officials to collaborate on reopening schools amid the pandemic.
“At the center of the mobilization is a core demand the unions and associations have united behind, calling for Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to coordinate across school district boundaries for a single, cohesive plan on reopening schools in the region for remote and in-person instruction,” according to a press release from the Fairfax Education Association.