Maryland OIGE's Findings Fall Flat on Somerset BOE

Fellow Editors
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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 of all allegations concocted by the OIGE in his report to the MSDE:

1) The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE violated its own policy 100-18.

2) The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE must have an RFP for legal services.

3) The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE violated policy 100-09.

4) The MSDE did not find that the SCBOE violated policy 200-14, since legal services are not

governed by policy or procurement law related to “Buildings, infrastructure or school supplies.”

5) The MSDE did not find that SCBOE violated any law when SCBOE publicly revoked its own policy 100-18 regarding any RFP for legal services.

6) The MSDE did not find that SCBOE couldn’t revoke Policy #100-18.

Unable to beat the SCBOE into submission, the Maryland State Board of Education (MSDE) ends with this - that the SCBOE must publicly adopt their attorney contract, and they have 30 days to do it. Otherwise, the MSDE threatens to request the State Comptroller to withhold funds from the SCBOE in the amount equal to any legal fees paid under the contract.

If a public adoption is what the MSDE wants, this can be easily resolved at the next Board meeting.

Is there anything else on the SCBOE? Absolutely nothing!

Fellows & Editors

December 11, 2025

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