Students Baba Cisse and Arvin Kim finalists for Montgomery school board
Students will vote on April 20
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Students will vote on April 20
“Everyone on this Council seems to agree that Black lives matter,” former Board of Education member Nate Tinbite said. “And if you sincerely believe that, then the massively disproportionate arrest statistics, wrenching stories and national peer review research should be enough.” The independent Office of Legislative Oversight found that Black students, who made up only 22% of Montgomery County’s school population in 2019, were 47% of those arrested during the four-year period from 2015 to 2019. “The Montgomery County Public Schools SRO program is racist,” student Mauricio Quint...