Transition team urges Starr to improve schools

The new leader of Montgomery County Public Schools needs to focus on making sure all schools and students receive their fair share of resources, according to a report released Monday. Superintendent Joshua Starr’s transition team also recommended that he pare down the system’s plethora of initiatives to ensure results are achieved, reorganize professional development for teachers, and clear up administrative bureaucracy.

“The transition team was repeatedly informed that the district had so many initiatives under way that some members of the MCPS community were overwhelmed. … The district must ‘make some choices’ and improve its follow-through, or accountability,” the team wrote.