Montgomery Community Media

Author David Baldacci is scheduled to visit the Gaithersburg Library on Dec. 2nd to discuss his latest novel, The Escape. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. For more information about this upcoming event, visit the Gaithersburg Book Festival website.

Overcrowding at schools in Gaithersburg are putting a gag on development and on Monday city officials questioned why school capacity projects aren’t keeping up with school populations. “Our dilemma is that the city has to grow and replace old neighborhoods,” said Councilmember Henry Marraffa during a city council meeting where Montgomery County Schools officials talked […]

Montgomery College, in partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools and The Universities at Shady Grove, recently hosted the 9th Annual College Scholarship Conference in Rockville to help students learn how to apply for scholarships and grants. MCTV’s Helen Ladel reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College […]

More than 250 Montgomery County Public Schools parents gathered at Gaithersburg High School on Nov. 24 to learn more about the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers—or PARCC—state tests. The event was designed to provide parents with important information on the new state assessments, the Common Core State Standards and how […]

Washington Adventist University is mourning the sudden death this week of adjunct professor of public administration and health care administration Richard Wolfe, who taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses at the university for nearly two decades. Earlier this semester, Wolfe was a key participant in the Dialogue on Ferguson, Mo. that the university held […]

The Saturday School celebrated its 28th anniversary of tutoring and mentoring students this month. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

Rockville officials are advocating for more school construction funds. Rockville-11 has the story. Visit our PEG partner Rockville11 to view more of its programming.

The 2014 Maryland Professor of the Year is a theatre professor at Montgomery College. MCTV’s Fritzi Bodenheimer has his story. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

Montgomery County has no plans to allow a school to be built on land it owns off of Route 28 in Gaithersburg, the county’s Deputy Director of General Services told MyMCMedia Thursday. The county acquired the 52-acre parcel which includes the former National Geographic building at 100 Edison Park Drive and relocated county services to […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education is “meeting expectations” in seven categories including “responsible management of resources” and “community engagement and communication”, according to a self-evaluation published by the board Wednesday. When the Board of Education hired Superintendent Dr. Joshua Starr in 2011, the Board committed to a system of shared governance with the superintendent. […]