The Prince George’s County Public Schools Board of Education contentiously debated the response to an ethics report by the Maryland Inspector General during a special meeting Sept. 15. The board’s deliberation marked the beginning of the end of the ethics inquiry that shook PGCPS last year.
PGCPS’s five-member ethics advisory panel accused multiple board members of improper conduct, including voting to employ a company because it donated to a board member’s campaign, hiring a private lobbyist and unethically reorganizing administrative staff.
The ethics panel’s assertions toward school board members turned out to be false, leading all of the panel members to resign after a monthslong, messy conflict.
“Over a most turbulent year, we believed that we stayed the course and did the right thing despite adverse treatment by some Board members and the press,” read the resignation letter by then-panel chair Gregory Morton Sr.
This past May, PGCPS started accepting applicants for new panel members, according to a news release from its communications office. The panel is made up of five community members and are unpaid positions.
The Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education started an investigation into the panel in September 2021 after community members filed complaints against the ethics panel, according to a review by the Inspector General for Education Richard Henry. The residents accused the panel members of conducting a faulty investigation and wanted the OIGE...
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