Montgomery Community Media

Here are your five things to know today, Nov. 9, in Montgomery County: 1. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot wants to end the alcohol monopoly in Montgomery County and he wants to do it by July 1. 2. Newly elected Gaithersburg leaders will be sworn in at a ceremony at City Hall tonight. 3. Montgomery County’s […]

Montgomery County Board of Elections will not only restore early voting sites in Bethesda (Jane E. Lawton Community Center) and Burtonsville (Marilyn J Praisner Community Recreation Center), but also request the State to allow a tenth site.  Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal tweeted the news earlier today. County Board of Elections Chair Jim Shalleck […]

A national search for the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is underway again. The recruiting firm Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates (HYA) is leading the search. According to a blog post on the MCPS website, the search will be guided by the tenets of the school district’s strategic planning framework and desired […]

Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro, chair of the council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy (GO) Committee, led a news conference on Thursday in Rockville to address the decision announced earlier this week by the Montgomery County Board of Elections (BOE) to relocate two established early voting sites in Montgomery County. More than 150 people attended […]

Montgomery County Councilmember shares in this MyMCMedia Extra that she is in “conversations” with Montgomery County Public Schools officials about the creation of a dual language immersion program. “What if we had dual language programs where you can have that low-income Latino student learning English and perfecting their Spanish alongside their peers- who are learning […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Montgomery County Board of Elections (BOE) President James Shalleck talks about what the staff is doing to help increase voter turnout in next year’s election. Take a look: Find out more about early voting in the 2016 election, here.

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, James Shalleck, the president of the Board of Elections (BOE), says a recent BOE vote on nine early voting sites in Montgomery County was not politics. Take a look: Find out more about early voting in Montgomery County, here.

Montgomery County Board of Education met on Monday to discuss ten budgetary interests for Fiscal Year 2017. Among them: ensuring no child “falls through the cracks,” support challenging opportunities to all students, recruit staff who is culturally proficient, provide support to students before kindergarten, among others. These items are a way to guide the Montgomery […]

Montgomery County students head back to school on Aug. 31 and there may be more students in our district than ever before. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials expect to welcome 156,654 students, an enrollment increase of more than 2,800 students over last year, according to MCPS Spokesperson Dana Tofig. So what else is new […]

The Montgomery County Public Schools executive leadership staff and administration at Wootton High School have appointed Kimberly Boldon to serve as Wootton’s acting principal for the 2015-2016 school year. This decision comes after the loss of school’s beloved principal Michael Doran who died unexpectedly on Aug. 19. “As difficult as it may be, we must continue to […]