Superintendent Evaluation Committee votes 5-0 to close Nov. 17 meeting for evaluation discussion

The Prince George's County Board of Education's Superintendent Evaluation Committee voted 5-0 on Nov. 17, 2025 to close its public meeting so members could discuss the superintendent's evaluation in private.

"Publicly disclosing information before it is finalized may result in lawsuits and fines," said Zakiya Goins McCants, chair of the Superintendent Evaluation Committee and District 8 board member, as she read the statutory basis the committee relied on to close the meeting.

The chair cited "General Provisions article three-three 0 5 b 1 and 2" as the legal authority for the closed session and asked whether the committee should close the meeting to discuss the evaluation. There was no public discussion recorded on the matter before the clerk conducted a roll-call vote.

Recorded votes in the meeting transcript show five affirmative votes recorded as "Aye" by speakers identified in the audio as Miss Goran; Doctor Moss; Missus Brown; Mister Jackson; and Mister Briggs. The clerk announced five in the affirmative and declared the motion adopted. The motion text and mover/second were not specified in the public portion of the record.

After the vote, Goins McCants instructed board members to exit the public meeting and immediately enter the closed-session meeting using a calendar link; staff noted there is a single meeting link for all attendees and that members would be admitted from a waiting room.

The meeting was recorded and the public portion will remain available on the PGCPS YouTube channel, the committee said. No substantive details of the superintendent's evaluation were discussed in the public record; the transcript shows only the procedural motion, the statutory citation, and the unanimous vote to close.