Despite dozens of questions, the most important one remains, why . It is a personnel matter. No its not a personnel matter. Youre selecting a public official. Why is that a personal matter . Board made the decision much thats all there is to say. And so the board of ed saying it wants to take mcps in a new direction all the while refusing to tell anyone what direction that is. As far as superintendent starrs replacement goes mcps will soon launch a nationwide search. No word if it already has any candidates in mind. Live in rockville, kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Thank you. Now, while starr will be gone from the School System this month, he wont be off the payroll until the end of june. Thats just under 100,000 in pay. Hell be paid 46,000 for unused time off and have his Health Insurance paid for the remainder of the year unless he gets another job first. Hes also being allowed to drive his countyowned jeep until the end of march. New at 5 00 d. C. Public schools admitting now that private
For now, were live in rockville. Im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Thank you, kevin. The state board of education will need to approve the county boards pick for an interim superintendent. Larry bowers is currently the assistant operating officer and held that job for the last 16 years. He was set to retire in june. He served as the interim superintendent where as well as the budget director and assistant superintendent. He has been with Montgomery County Public School systems for 37 years. Alison . Meanwhile, across the river evidence that alexandria schools are making the grade. The city is at the top of the list of best education in mid sized cities. The system gets high marks for its 121 studentteacher ratio and the National Average is 161. Hats, scarves gloves. Kids needed all of that today to go to the bus stop this morning. Kids and adults. Cold out there. By afternoon, the chill did ease up a little bit especially if you were in the sunshine. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the stor
Alert security. At that point, the school was put on lockdown and a search of the area began. Today police are reviewing Surveillance Video hoping to identify the suspect or suspects. Now, the two victims were flown to shock trauma in baltimore. Police tell us theyre expected to be released either tonight or sometime tomorrow. All theyll say about their identity is that they are schoolaged boys who went to school here in frederick county. They wont say which school they attended. Coming up at 5 00 and 6 00 reaction from parents and students and the very latest from police about what they are hoping might help them to solve this crime. Reporting from frederick, Mark Segraves news4. Chopper 4 just flew to another High School Just a few miles away from there. Police tell us a 16yearold student at tusk aroura high school assaulted a teacher inside a classroom. That student is in juvenile custody, the teacher at the hospital. Police have not said what led up to that attack. Now a developing
We have more from capitol hill. Ashton carter sailed through his nomination hearing today but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed their nr the slowgoing fight against isis. Reporter Ashton Carter the pentagon insider nominated to be defense secretary gave a sober assessment in our ability to defeat isis. The United States involvement is essential. Its necessary, but its not sufficient. Reporter the extremist groups latest act of brutality, burning a pilot alive, was calculating. Isis is really trying to fracture the coalition that is helping the u. S. And countries like jordan take the fight to isis. Reporter Jordans King Abdullah received the bad news as he was on capitol hill lobbying for help. His response hanging two terror suspects isis tried to free and offering to step up the role against fighting isis. If the United States will let them. I couldnt believe what i heard yesterday, all the red tape they have to go through to get something on the front lines to help th
Rare distinction. It is the only second u. S. Transit agency to ever face a comprehensive inspection by the u. S. Government. The review will start next month. It will focus on the overall Safety Culture and will include rail bus and train operations. This inspection is separate from the ntsbs investigation of last emergency. 4 31. Here is something you dont get to say often in february. Its 42 degrees this morning. But that is the warm part of the day. I think temperatures will drop. I wish we could say the way it was yesterday. Tom kierein here with more. Yeah we briefly got if to the low and mid50s yesterday afternoon. But overnight, its gotten colder and the leading edge is triggering a few flurries, these areas in gray. As that does move closer to us it looks like that will be drying out, but we still have a small chance of an early flurry this morning. Then a cold and windy afternoon moofing ing moving in and roller coaster temperatures continuing into the weekend and first part