Montgomery Community Media

La Junta de Educación de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Montgomery anunció en una carta el fallecimiento de Patricia O’Neill, miembro de la Junta con más años de servicio. O’Neill, que vivía en Bethesda, perdió la vida el martes a los 71 años. Actualmente se desconoce la causa de la muerte, dijo un portavoz […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education announced the death of the school board’s longest-serving member, Patricia O’Neill in a letter. O’Neill, who lived in Bethesda, died Tuesday at 71. The cause of death is currently unknown, a spokesperson for MCPS told MyMCM in an email. According to MCPS, she was the longest-serving school board […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has updated its COVID-19 quarantine guidelines. To summarize, in most situations, close contacts of symptomatic students will no longer be required to quarantine unless that student tests positive for COVID-19 or had a known exposure to someone with the virus, said Heather Dublinske, MCPS Coordinator for Student Welfare and Compliance. […]

Las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Montgomery (MCPS, por sus siglas en inglés) presentarán tres conversaciones virtuales en vivo para ayudar a padres y guardianes a navegar este ciclo escolar y conocer los recursos y servicios disponibles para los estudiantes, según el comunicado de prensa de MCPS. Según MCPS, hay muchos padres y guardianes que […]

El regreso a clases ha generado muchas preguntas e inquietudes en lo que respecta a las políticas de cuarentena de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Montgomery (MCPS). En respuesta, MCPS lanzó un nuevo mensaje comunitario esta semana para ayudar al distrito escolar a minimizar la cantidad de estudiantes que necesitan ser puestos en cuarentena. […]

September is International Underground Railroad Month. Originally published on Feb. 26, 2020 The Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park in Sandy Spring is home to an Underground Railroad trail. The trail is a guide for the route enslaved African Americans in Montgomery County may have taken to reach freedom. That often meant walking all the way to […]

Montgomery County Public Schools sent a letter to the community on Thursday announcing several updates to the schools’ coronavirus response. One update dealt with students, ages 12 and up, planning to participate in winter and spring athletics. Moving forward they will be required to get the coronavirus vaccine. In the letter, MCPS outlined seven pieces […]

The newly completed Josiah Henson Museum in North Bethesda will hold a community event on Sunday, September 12, commemorating International Underground Railroad Month. The celebration, hosted by Montgomery Parks, will include free family-friendly events, period re-enactments, and musical performances. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Reverend Henson lead 118 former enslaved people to freedom […]

Back to school has generated many questions and concerns when it comes to Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) quarantine policies. In response, MCPS released a new community message this week to help the school district minimize the number of students who need to quarantine. Montgomery County Health Officer Dr.Travis Gayles clarified many of the issues […]

The majority of the 20 members of the public speaking at Thursday’s Montgomery County Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting spoke out strongly against the current COVID-19 quarantine guidelines and urged schools to use rapid testing. Following Department Health and Human Services’ guidance, MCPS quarantines students who show one sign of the virus, including sneezing […]