Next Week: Fireworks In Montgomery Co
The Montgomery County Board of Education has just announced that it will hold a special session on Tuesday evening. Here’s the agenda: MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Session Tuesday, June...
View ArticleRecords Don’t Support Montgomery County Schools’ Title IX Booster Spending...
A couple weeks ago we discovered that Phil Rison and others within Montgomery County Schools were claiming athletics boosters spent several hundred thousand dollars on facilities. Rison, reporting to...
View ArticleJoshua Powell Had Trouble In Cloverport
Ready for another trip down memory lane? … In October 2006, Joshua Powell was appointed acting superintendent of Cloverport Independent Schools, though he only had provisional certification: CLICK EACH...
View ArticleMontgomery Makes Big Money Change
Want to see the Montgomery County Board of Education change the job description of one of the last Joshua Powell holdouts? Here’s the board doing just that last evening. Jacqui Johnston’s job of...
View ArticleMontgomery Caught Withholding Again
A good portion of my daily life is spent going through Montgomery County Schools-related documents. Every week it seems like there are dozens (if not hundreds?) of pages of information that wind up in...
View ArticleWhat The Heck, Montgomery County?!
Individuals closely aligned with Joshua Powell are still mucking things up. Here’s a thumb-typed report of the latest. On the evening of Sunday, June 14, Mt. Sterling Police contacted Montgomery County...
View ArticleTELL Scores Tank In Montgomery Co
In early January 2014, former Montgomery County Board of Education chair Kenney Gulley praised fired superintendent Joshua Powell for TELL Survey scores: Gulley notes the district has made great...
View ArticleTidbit For The Montgomery Co Folks
UPDATE — The judge ordered Powell to turn over all equipment and keys by tomorrow. And had choice words regarding his appearance. Details later. Original story below… … Joshua Powell had his latest...
View ArticleSurprise: Spending Confusion In Montgomery County Schools
Pressed for time today, so here’s a quick video from last night’s special session of the Montgomery County Board of Education. Seems there are all kinds of questions surrounding booster funds....
View ArticleJoshua Powell Violated Judge’s Order
The Montgomery County Board of Education has tried for nearly two months to get fired superintendent Joshua Powell to return equipment and keys belonging to the school district. He’s refused to do so....
View ArticleAnother School District Suspended Its Superintendent Last Night
Check out what’s happened in Oldham County, per WDRB: Oldham County Schools superintendent Will Wells has been suspended. Wells was suspended at a special meeting Thursday night, school board...
View ArticlePowell Finally Returned His Equipment
Fired Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell finally caved. Powell originally violated a judge’s order to return his district-issued iPad, MiFi and keys by close of business on...
View ArticleOn Bookkeeping & Secrecy In MoCo
On the down side, Montgomery County Schools will maintain its centralized bookkeeping system for another year at the recommendation of the district’s new superintendent, Matthew Thompson: FROM BOARD...
View ArticleWhere There’s Smoke, There’s Fire…?
Thought it’d be a good idea to share a comment left on a story about Adam Edelen’s review of Fairview Independent Schools: “Eyes rolling back in your head? Meanwhile, in Montgomery County…” Yeah, as a...
View ArticleData Forensics Investigation In 3, 2…
The equipment Joshua Powell finally returned to Montgomery County Schools after defying a judge’s order? Sources within the district tell us Powell returned his iPad completely scrubbed of data. Board...
View ArticleOn Fleeing Montgomery County Scandal
In May, Anna Powell, the illegally-hired wife of fired Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell, applied for a job as a school psychologist with Broward County Schools in Florida. Which...
View ArticlePowell Getting Deposed By Board Today
Boggling minds everywhere, fired former Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell is pushing forward with his lawsuit against the board of education. And in the strangest stunt yet? He’s...
View ArticleTwo Montgomery County Tidbits…
We mentioned briefly yesterday that fired former Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell was in the midst of a deposition. For some reason, the man is still fighting his case against the...
View ArticleHighlights From The Powell Hearing
Fired former Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell’s due process/employment hearing started this morning. At his side instead of an attorney? Richard Hughes, of deceiving the public...
View ArticleInteresting Montgomery Co Coincidence
Is it coincidental that someone testifying against fired former Montgomery County Schools superintendent Joshua Powell is repeatedly experiencing vehicle damage? From cut lines and other tampering to…...
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