You'd never expect this. A county traditionally in the bottom tier (23 out of 24) of testing scores among school systems in Maryland is number one ranked in percent change in reading scores. A new, young Superintendent who has only been in the office for less than a year is the catalyst for the change. It's an unlikely situation for such a good result. But that is what happened in 2025.

At the December 2, 2025 Worcester County Board of Education budget hearing, Board member Katie Addis (District 6) made an announcement. After three years of service exposing the darkness and deception within the school system, she made a difficult decision to gracefully resign. Listen below: Since the beginning of my time on the board, I've always said I would be in this seat to try and invoke change for the greater good of Worcester County. I wanted this so badly because I w

When public trust is already stretched thin, Maryland doesn’t need an accountability office that dodges its own accountability and ironically turns its power against the people it serves. Yet that is precisely the problem unfolding between the Somerset County Board of Education and the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education (OIGE). This isn’t about partisan politics or personalities. It’s about the rule of law, and the OIGE’s troubling misunderstanding of it