Legal Opinion
Montgomery County Public Schools v. Donlon
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 30, 2017No. 0571/16PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLeahy, J.
This case concerns the interpretation of the Maryland Whistleblower Protection Law, Maryland Code (1993, 2015 Repl. Vol., 2016 Supp.), State Personnel and Pensions Article (“SPP”), § 5-301, et seq. (the “WBL”), and whether it applies to employees of county boards of education. 1
A high school teacher in the Montgomery County Public School system, Appellee Brian Donlon (“Donlon” or “Appel-lee”), informed the press that he had discovered that Richard Montgomery High School (“RMHS”) was inflating its Advanced Placement (“AP”) statistics. Donlon then filed a whis-tleblower complaint against…
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