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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 the school system’s current fleet of school buses — which boasts more than 1,400 vehicles — to g...

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 publicly expressing frustrations and concerns about MCPS’ reopening plan, set to start in a little mo...

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, which represents teachers and other educators in Maryland’s largest school system. More than 1,000 m...

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 school employees have the opportunity to get vaccinated before returning to the buildings. The reso...