Mr. Maxwell, who announced last week he will leave as chief executive officer of Maryland’s second-largest school system at the end of the school year, was hired as the county’s eighth schools chief in 14 years. Larry Hogan (R), whom Mr. Baker seeks to challenge in November, made him an issue, as did Ben Jealous, one of Mr. Baker’s rivals for the Democratic nomination. Leading Democratic candidates who hope to succeed Mr. Baker as county executive also called for his ouster. What has made Prince George’s “exceptionally messy,” in the words of one national educational policy expert to The Post’s Donna St. George, are long-standing political tensions centered on issues of school governance. These are questions Prince George’s voters might want to ask the candidates for county executive.

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2018 23:48 UTC