The investigation on the Somerset County Board of Education (SCBOE) concludes. As we stated in our past article , no law was ever violated by the Board. The assertions by the OIGE were plentiful, only exposing his ignorance and incompetence along with a series of desperate attempts to politically charge and weaponize state agencies against an elected school Board. The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE violated any policy or procurement law as alleged by the OIGE. As a result o

I will never forget the year that our local school system decided to give every incoming 9th grader in the county a laptop computer for use in and out of school. It was called the "one to one" project and it was promoted by our Superintendent as the greatest thing ever in education. It would make student achievement soar. There were many in the system that questioned the project since the Superintendent at the time, Karen Salmon, seemed in a hurry to get the program running.

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.