Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Board of Education recently made the following administrative appointments: Andrew M. Zuckerman, currently acting chief operating officer, as chief operating officer Benjamin T. OuYang, currently principal, Parkland Middle School, as director, Department of Career Readiness and Innovative Programs, Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programs Tamisha L. Sampson, currently principal, Sargent Shriver Elementary […]

June is national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride month and the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights is scheduled to host the first community forum on transgender issues. The public meeting is set for June 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Silver Spring at the Civic Building. James Stowe, director at the […]

The nearly half a million students who got less time to take a portion of the SAT on June 6 will now have the option to retake that test for free in October. According to an email from The College Board, the company that distributes the SAT- a right of passage and cause of angst […]

Damascus Elementary School Principal Bill Collins fondly recalls some of the incentives he and his staff used to have their students read during the school’s 2015 Read-a-Thon. When the students exceeded the ambitious goal of reading for more than 100,000 minutes in 14 days, he lived up to the ultimate incentive: He slept for a […]

Cyrus Kamara lives in Germantown. He has been a Montgomery County residents for more than 10 years. On June 14, he watched his mother, Matilda Kamara, become an American citizen during a naturalization ceremony for 43 people at the Celebrate Gaithersburg Festival. Naturalization candidates were from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a final $2.32 billion operating budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 that required cuts to close a $53 million shortfall. The Board approved the elimination of more than 380 positions and reductions to the budgets for the district’s technology initiative, professional development, textbooks, and many […]

The Achievement Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES) program was designed to assist thousands of at-risk youth who are underrepresented in college. On Tuesday, June 16, educators, county officials, and relatives will gather to recognize these students’ hard work, dedication, and achievements at Strathmore in Bethesda. ACES, launched in 2013, is a collaboration is between Montgomery […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Craig Rice, who chairs the Council’s Education Committee, made the following statement regarding funding for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) as the Board of Education prepares to make important program decisions at its June 16th meeting. “As chair of the Montgomery County Council’s Education Committee, I have been very pleased to work […]

Emily Yang, a Richard Montgomery High School student who recently was named one of only 141 “Presidential Scholars” in the nation, talks about her experiences on June 9th as she was honored by the Montgomery County Council. Also at the ceremonies were, left to right: David Lopilator, an English teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School […]

The students and staff at Gaithersburg Elementary School are celebrating the number of books they read this school year. And even though school is now out, these students are expected to do a lot of reading this summer, too. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports.