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

The Somerset County Board of Education (SCBOE) has issued a forceful response to the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education (OIGE), disputing the agency’s findings regarding the Board’s procurement of legal services from Schifanelli Law, LLP. The OIGE’s investigative report , released November 13, alleged that Somerset County Public Schools violated state procurement guidelines and local policy when selecting its current legal counsel. In a detailed memorandu