Let me know if you have ever heard of any of these people before. Some are complete strangers. Quite a few have come before the board for one thing or another and haven’t gotten their way and are now running. Others are just…you’ve go to be kidding me
Ready Willing and Abell

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A committee was comprised of county residents, staff, and students to review the submitted suggestions. The committee came before the board on June 28, 2010 and presented their unanimous top three suggestions in no particular order.
-Zekiah
-St. Charles
-Lagrange Point
Other suggestions submitted to the committee are listed at Ready Willing and Abell

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Board of Education members participate in graduations as part of the academic procession, and along with the Superintendent confer diplomas to the graduating class.
 
If you wish to have your graduating senior presented their diploma by a particular board member, please contact that board member with the students name and school as soon as possible.

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Agnes Meyer Awards Go to 3 Southern MD Teachers

By Jenna Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer

Three Southern Maryland teachers are among 21 public, private and charter school educators being honored with the 2009 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Awards, presented by the Washington Post Educational Foundation.
The annual awards recognizing outstanding teachers are named for a grandmother of Donald [...]

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The incident ticker you have seen under construction in the left hand column of my site, Ready, Willing and Abell, is now active. I will use this ticker to post serious events at our local schools that are reported to me by members of the public. The events listed will NOT be obtained through my [...]

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Don’t forget – today is early dismissal for Chuck Co. schools!

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NOTES FROM BOARD OF EDUCATION WORK SESSION 3/23/09
FOLLOW-UP OF BOARD WORK SESSION

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This morning I was looking for a person located in Central/Northern Charles County to do men’s shirt alterations.  I tripped across this website – I’ve never seen it befor – have you?
CharlesCountyWebsite.com

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Charles County Board of Education member Jennifer Abell will hold a question & answer session for interested residents on Thursday, February 19 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. at Unique Sports Academy, 109 Post Office Road, Waldorf. For more information call Jennifer Abell 301-659-4112 or e-mail abell4edu@verizon.net .

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Md. schools stand to gain $1.1 billion from stimulus
Funds will arrive over two years, with some flexibility in spending
By Liz Bowie | liz.bowie@baltsun.com
8:21 PM EST, February 16, 2009
Maryland schools will get about $1.1 billion over the next two years from the federal stimulus package that President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign Tuesday, an amount [...]

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School board OKs pay hike
Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
By GRETCHEN PHILLIPS
Staff writer
A bold move by the school board showed teachers that members were listening to their request as the Charles County Board of Education adopted the superintendent’s 2010 budget with an amendment to add teacher raises.
Step increases for eligible school system employees raised Superintendent James E. [...]

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Posted on February 05, 2009
I feel that the high schools have a serious security issue during after-school activities.  I see people enter doors from various sides of the building.  Students in nearly empty halls.  There seems to be very little in the way of safety assurance in after-school activities.  A student might not only be [...]

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View the agenda here.
This seems like such a waste…with all the future agenda items that have been brought up throughout 2008 and none of them are even on the schedule. We, the board, will show up for this meeting, no one will come to public forum, Mr. Balides will speak for a few minutes about [...]

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This is from Jennifer Abell’s website – she’s mad about something.  I wonder if the Indy will call her and find out the scoop!
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Good administrators, assistant superintendents, superintendents, or any CCPS employee should NEVER BE

manipulative
deceptive
disrespectful
condescending
threatening
accusatory
or anything but transparent and honest

to parents, staff, and the public, much less a board member.
Not only is it infuriating [...]

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Today is the big day – Chair and Vice Chair are (drumroll please)…
Wade – Chair
Wise – Vice Chair

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