David Fishback's Blog: History of LGBTQ+ Progress in the Montgomery County MD Public Schools (MCPS), 2002-2025

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

History of LGBTQ+ Progress in the Montgomery County MD Public Schools (MCPS), 2002-2025

In 2015, PFLAG National published on its website a monograph entitled Curriculum Victory in Montgomery County, Maryland: A Case Study and Handbook for Action. It is now housed on the Metro DC PFLAG website in the Resources and Advocacy Work sections. The Curriculum Victory monograph has now been amended to include information through June 24, 2025 and may be found directly here and here.

As noted at the end of the amended monograph, at this writing, we are awaiting a decision from the United States Supreme Court challenging one of MCPS’s recent initiatives to foster respect for and understanding of LGBTQ+ people and their families. PFLAG responses to the decision will be handled by PFLAG National.

The amended monograph is provided as a resource to foster awareness of the background to help in moving forward, whatever the Supreme Court decides.

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About David

David S. Fishback serves on the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and as Maryland Advocacy Co-Chair for the Metro DC chapter of PFLAG.

For 30 years, David worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. As Assistant Director of its Torts Branch, he was a leader in the successful effort to block the manufacturers of asbestos and Agent Orange from shifting their legal liability to taxpayers. Earlier in his career, David worked for the National Labor Relations Board, for the Center for Political Reform, and in a Memphis prison as a VISTA volunteer.

As an education advocate in Montgomery County, Maryland, David served as a PTA co-president of a magnet integration school and later as the chairperson of the county’s Citizens Advisory Committee on sexuality education, bringing intelligent discussion of LGBTQ+ topics into the public school curriculum in the face of significant conservative pushback. Along with his wife Bobbi, he co-founded the LGBTQ-inclusive Kulanu group at Temple Emanuel, where he had also served as a board member.

David holds degrees from Harvard Law School and The George Washington University. He received a Heschel Vision Award from Jews United for Justice in 2015.