Montgomery Community Media

At the culmination of the 2019 Invent the Future Challenge Saturday more than 850 middle school students presented their inventions for preserving the planet. For a full year, the students had worked on their ideas, creating solutions and designing prototypes. The team of judges included professionals from MOAA, NIST, Pepco, Emergent BioSolutions, University of Maryland, […]

Montgomery County Public Schools is hosting four community conversations to seek input about a systemwide school boundary analysis. The school board requested that MCPS’s superintendent use “external consultants to conduct an in-depth review an analysis of how existing school and cluster boundaries support or hinder the effective use of school facilities in MCPS.” The conversations […]

Last week, every school in Montgomery County received a Maryland School Report Card, which serves as an education “accountability system” for Maryland’s public schools. The report cards measure test results, curriculum access, absenteeism rates, school climate, college and career readiness, and student growth. Schools receive three scores: Star Rating (based on point percentage). Percentile Rank (school’s performance compared […]

A 12-year-old boy who attends Earle B. Wood Middle School has been charged after he waved a replica gun Wednesday in the school’s auditorium, a Montgomery County police statement said. The boy, unnamed in the statement, was charged with threat of mass violence, disrupting school activities and threatening others with bodily harm, police said. The […]

Students and staff at Earle B. Wood Middle School gathered at a special event on Dec. 20 to celebrate a donation of books from Gallaudet University, one of the nation’s premier post-secondary programs for the hearing impaired. The school’s media center received a total of 25 books on deaf education and the culture of deafness. […]