The Montgomery County school board unanimously agreed to appoint former Orange County, N.C., schools superintendent Monique Felder as its interim superintendent.
The board unanimously agreed to hire Monique Felder as Montgomery’s interim superintendent. Felder mostly recently served as superintendent of Orange County schools in North Carolina before Fast, informative and written just for locals.
Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. Felder took her seat at the board table immediately after the vote. She will serve as interim superintendent at least through June. The vote came as leaders of Maryland’s largest school district attempt to restore trust with the community after investigations into its handling of misconduct complaintsin Montgomery County. She rose through the ranks as an assistant principal and principal, the district said, before becoming an elementary program supervisor in the school system’s division of accelerated and enriched instruction. She eventually became director of interventions for the school system before departing in 2014 to become an executive director in the Office of the Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning for Prince George’s County Public Schools. Montgomery school board president Karla Silvestre touted Felder’s 32 years of experience in public education — particularly within the county. “We are confident that her background in district leadership, instruction and administration makes her the right person to carry us through this transition and begin the work to rebuild trust among staff and the community, while we identify the next permanent superintendent,” Silvestre said in a statement.on Friday left her four-year term appointment about two years early after reaching a “mutually agreed separation” with the school board. Brian Hull — the system’sIn January, McKnight said that school board members requested she step away from her role as superintendent. But McKnight said the board had not properly offered justification for the request, and said she would defend her reputation. School board members have not publicly explained the reasoning behind their request, citing it as a personnel matter. But it came after the school system was the subject of two investigative inquiries by the county inspector general related to its handling of sexual harassment and workplace bullying complaints filed about formerAfter leaving the Prince George’s school district in 2016, Felder served as chief academic officer for Metro Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. A few years later, she was one of several employees investigated for allegedly receiving undisclosed consulting fees from the Educational Research and Development Institute, a business that tests educational products and provides feedback. An audit posted by WTVF NewsChannel 5 in Nashville found that Felder received $2,000 in honorariums and other money from the institute but did not correctly report it on a conflict of interest form. The forms are supposed to “be done retrospectively,” to include money from the previous year according to the audit. Instead, the audit found Felder disclosed “possible future compensation” on the reporting form for January 2017. She fixed the issue in an addendum in October 2018.Montgomery school board members wrote they were aware of the audit’s findings. They added that they were confident that Felder is “a trustworthy, upstanding and highly respected educational leader.”Felder left the Nashville district in 2019 to become superintendent of Orange County Public Schools, a system of about 7,000 students west of Durham, N.C. During her tenure, the district reported a nearly 50 percent increase in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course enrollment for students of color over two school years, according to reporting fromFelder recounted some of the pressures of the post. Felder was hired by a school board that crafted a new school system equity policy but the board’s political makeup became more moderate after the 2022 election. Some of the candidates were endorsed by Moms for Liberty, which argued those equity efforts were too extreme. Tensions increased when an independent financial review reported that the school system was heavily relying on its rainy-day fund at an unsustainable level, the Assembly reported. Felder reportedly defended the spendingFor the Commanders, all that matters is getting it right at quarterback
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