Posted on 02/05/2024 2:57:04 PM PST by 11th_VA
If you thought that the resignation of Superintendent Monifa McKnight meant an end to MCPS’s leadership issues, you thought wrong! That’s because the person the school board plans to appoint as interim superintendent has problems of her own, some of them documented in a local government investigation as well as in Maryland courthouses...
Monique Felder, who the school board has announced it is planning to appoint as interim superintendent tomorrow...
During her tenure in Nashville, the public schools were the subject of many articles in local media.
The story most directly tied to Felder was her acceptance of payments from a company with ties to school district vendors. In February 2019, News Channel 5 reported the following:
A top Metro Schools official pocketed thousands of dollars in consulting fees from a group with ties to companies doing business with the district.
But our NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Dr. Monique Felder failed to disclose money that she received in 2017 until auditors started asking questions.
In January 2018, Felder filed a financial disclosure in which she was asked to “list all sources of your income for the preceding calendar year.”
Felder listed none.
In fact, a recently released audit of Metro Schools says Felder had actually pocketed $4,000 in 2017 from the Education Research and Development Institute...
(More at the link)
Backstory:
Superintendent Monifa McKnight ask to step away from job
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I “lived” in Monkey (aka: Montgomery) county for 3 decades. It is one of the most liberal hell-holes in the universe. Most of the people there “work” for the government on some level...and are to-the-death LIB nitwits. All i can say is “Free at last...Thank God Free at Last!
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