Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County School Board stopped short of ordering a feasibility study on the former English Manor Elementary School as a possible location for the county’s Alternative Education Program Tuesday, instead opening up the options to about a dozen county sites and commercial facilities. The board did vote to go ahead with a revised feasibility […]

Like Cinderella at the ball, time ran out for the Student Member of the Montgomery County Board of Education last night. At the stroke of midnight the General Assembly closed up shop for another year and with it went the Montgomery County Delegation bill to allow the student representative on the county’s board of education […]

UPDATE It was a full house at the meeting regarding the new Wheaton Library and Recreation Center Project. Residents asked questions about the quantity of books in the library, computer labs, children space, gymnasium, and traffic. County officials expect to break ground on the new Wheaton Library and Recreating Center July 2016, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open […]

Both the Blair G. Ewing Center and the former English Manor Elementary School site are the two locations proposed to be evaluated for the county school system’s Alternative Education Program. The Montgomery County Board of Education is expected to vote on a proposal by Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers Tuesday that suggests that feasibility studies should be […]

Montgomery County fourth grade students took a recent trip to Johns Hopkins University to bake, learn and give back to the community. Take a look: Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

You may be hearing a lot about Montgomery College’s baseball team and track and field athletes this spring. MCTV’s Michael Brown has more in this report: Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

Montgomery College students with autism, a growing population on campus, now have a new program to help them with career guidance, time management and other educational support. Disability Support Services at Montgomery College formed a partnership with the Maryland Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) this spring semester to offer a support program at the College. Currently there […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education is seeking to fill three vacancies on its five-member Ethics Panel. Each vacancy is for a three-year term beginning on July 1. Applicants must be Montgomery County residents. Members serve without compensation. Among the Panel’s responsibilities are: (1) interpreting the Board of Education’s Ethics Policy and issuing advisory opinions […]

Seven seniors from Montgomery County Public Schools have been selected as winners for the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. According to a news release, the selective scholarship competition recognizes African American high school seniors across the U.S. with outstanding academic achievement. About 150,000 students participated in the competition for these scholarships. In September, the National […]

Many Montgomery College students are backed by generous donors who believe in the students’ ability to succeed and give back to the community. MCTV has more from the college’s annual scholarship luncheon. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.