It’s probably a safe bet (see what I did there) that you know what ante is. That seed money in the pot is an important part of the poker game. It’s what gets that jackpot growing. And if you don’t ante up, you don’t play. The Howard County Public School System is facing the reality that county residents and elected officials want to win the jackpot without tossing a chip on the table.
In January, HCPSS Superintendent Michael Martirano requested a $964.1M FY21 operating budget for the scho...
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What an Ally Looks Like
Yesterday, on June 1, my friend Jonathan England passed away suddenly. This was heartbreaking news. A native of Prince George’s County, Jonathan was a devoted family man; a lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the African-American Studies Department at the University of Maryland; and an ardent supporter of minority groups, working resolutely to dismantle systemic racism through education. He spent years teaching young adults about slavery, civil rights, race relations, racial disp...
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Hall of Shame – June 1, 2020
Correction to D2 BOE Debate Analysis
I must make a correction to my District 2 BOE debate analysis based on new information I have received.
When I was writing the post, I reached out to the Stevens Forest Elementary School PTA to confirm Larry Pretlow’s membership status. At the time, they stated that he was not on their membership roster, and according to their attendance records, he had never attended a meeting. I wrote my post to reflect this information.
However, some time after my post was published, the SFES PTA bec...
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Hall of Shame – May 27, 2020
There is so much I could say about the Reopen Howard County rally held in historic Ellicott City yesterday. There’s room for debate on the subject of reopening the county. But it’s clear that the rally was about more than that, and I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. On a day when many people of color and their allies are reeling from videos of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, and NYC woman Amy Cooper dialing 911 on an African-American man wh...
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