Montgomery Community Media

Students involved in Richard Montgomery High School’s Jaguar Scholars Leadership Program see John Lewis as a rockstar. Because of history teacher Jerome Price, 25 freshmen leaders met with Rep. Lewis for about an hour and a half on Wednesday (they only expected to speak with him for a half hour!). https://twitter.com/MrPrice_JSLP/status/1103432095471415296 Price had been planning this […]

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 […]

The first day of school in our county started early as the buses left the depots to transport students. Here are photos from around the county:

The Montgomery County Police Department and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials held a news conference on Friday afternoon to stress back-to-school safety. More than 156,000 students head back to class on Aug. 31. Police Chief Thomas Manger said approximately 160 crossing guards will be deployed to help students cross the street safely. MCPS Interim Superintendent […]

Friends of the Library, Montgomery County are recruiting schools to participate in the 2015-2016 MOSAIC middle school student writing contest.  The first teacher info session is scheduled for October 6. Last year’s winners were announced over the summer.  Celebrating heritage and cultural differences, Montgomery County middle school students were honored for their award winning poems, […]

About 50 students visited the Montgomery County Council building recently as part of the county’s mentoring program. Susan Kenedy reports. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

The Montgomery County Board of Education unanimously approved a new six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) request for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) on Nov. 18, that addresses overcrowding caused by years of dramatic enrollment growth. The Board’s six-year request of $1.74 billion includes 14 new classroom addition projects and keeps on schedule many other projects […]

Several Montgomery County police officers participated in a training exercise at Julius West Middle School on April 2 in Rockville. According to Officer Rebecca Innocenti, the training exercise consisted of diverting District 1 patrol officers off the road to the school where they were informed as part of the training exercise that an active shooter […]