Lierman is no friend of transparency
Letter to the editor published in the Capital
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Category: Comments
Ed Week heaps accolades on AACPS’s SMOB as students’ rather than staff’s voice
Comment published in Education Week
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Kudos to the Capital for Publishing My Critique of their Government Subsidies
Letter-to-editor published in the Capital
Read MoreCapital’s Error Correction Policy
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreSchool board’s ambivalent relationship to policies/laws
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreThe Capital finally shining a light on the ethical cesspool of Anne Arundel County’s Ethics Commission
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreCapital finally admits a conflict of interest in its coverage
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Read MoreWhere was the Capital when the Legislature was designing the new school board election Process?
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreWhere is the School Board’s Ethics Panel when it comes to a blatant ethics violation such as this?
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreAnne Arundel’s Professional Wrestling Style Education Politics
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreThe Capital’s coming out against school board politics
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe Capital (finally) does some original reporting on school board politics
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreWhere are the Capital’s claimed stories about “school system scandals”?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreWho should be blamed for the public’s ignorance about the School Board Appointment Commission?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreSince when do newspapers publish unverified allegations about a candidate two days before an election?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreWhy does the Capital only report the top salaries for certain bargaining groups?
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Read MoreOn the politics of making class size data public
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Read MoreThe Capital’s Holier Than Thou Talk About Lying In Politics
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Read MoreIf the legislature doesn’t pass redistricting reform, use a redistricting jury
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreAnother example of highly politicized K12 compensation auditing & reporting
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreHow much does Superintendent Arlotto earn? The Capital ain’t going to tell you
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe unreported story of why and how the SMOB election became so transparent in 2018
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe Capital’s Panglossian (and highly profitable) investigative reporting practices
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Read MoreOn the politicized framing of Maryland’s gerrymandering debate
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe SMOB Election: Shame on the Capital for pretending there is no difference between news and PR
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOn the Anne Arundel State’s Attorney Hiring His Campaign Manager
Comments published in the Capital
Read MoreParsing School Board Candidate Ray Leone’s Campaign Statements
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Read MoreAdding SROs has downsides that need to be managed
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreReporting on non-partisan elections requires more and different work by newspapers
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Read MoreOn framing the discussion of the superintendent’s new contract
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Read MoreUnderstanding AACPS turnover
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Read MoreThe Capital’s Under-reporting of Arlotto’s Compensation Package
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Read MoreSBAC Appointment May Win Award for Shortest Winning Application
Comment published in the Capital.
Read MoreThe Capital’s Endemic Confusion About the Various School Board Selection Processes
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Read MoreWhen AACPS staff use government resources for political purposes….
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreCapital Relies on SBAC, Which relies on AACPS PR Office, for Sending Out Press Releases
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Read MoreExplaining why the school board appointment commission appointed neither candidate
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Read Moreappointed vs. elected school board: beside the point
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Read MoreA story behind the story of the school appointment commission’s non-appointment?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe SBAC: If 22 candidates are a sign of success, are 2 a sign of failure?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreAnne Arundel’s Culture of Orwellian Amnesia
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreSBAC transparency PR in high gear
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOur opinion leaders’ fantasies about the new Anne Arundel School Board Appointment Commission
Comments published in the Capital
Read MoreOn The Nature of Del. Pam Beidle’s Leadership on the School Board Selection Bill
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Read MoreA Glimpse at the Politics Behind the SBAC’s appointment of Colin Reinhard to the BOE
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Read MoreCapital Wrong: Board of Education entering a mixed appointment-election era, not a pure election era
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Read MoreThe type of reporting one gets when an education reporter resigns and someone from another beat temporarily replaces her
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreMake Believe about the Anne Arundel School Board Application Commission
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe he-said, she-said spat between Delegate Herb McMillan and Capital Columnist Mike Collins
Comment published in the Capital
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J.H. Snider’s Public Testimony Proposing Procedures for the New School Board Appointment Commission
Testimony before the School Board Appointment Commission of Anne Arundel County
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J.H. Snider