Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED June 15, 2015 – The city of Gaithersburg will honor Summit Hall PTA President Oscar Alvarenga at the June 15th Mayor and City Council meeting. You may remember Alvarenga was named the Parent-Teacher Association President of the Year last month by the Montgomery County Council of PTAs. ORIGINAL POST Oscar Alvarenga admits he used […]

More than 600 Montgomery County Public Schools parents gathered at Montgomery Blair High School earlier this month to learn more about the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers – or PARCC – state tests. MCPS -TV has more. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming. […]

Edline, the homework-checking, grade peek-in online tool used by many of the county’s parents to keep tabs on their kids’ school work is on its way out. In its place, Montgomery County Public Schools will move to a new web-based system called myMCPS. In 2009, Montgomery County Public Schools developed and launched a web-based system, myMCPS, […]

In a recent letter to County Executive Ike Leggett and the Montgomery County Council, the Montgomery County Council of PTAs highlighted their efforts to bring awareness at the State level of the school system’s need for additional construction funding due to overcrowding.  Read the complete text of the letter below: “Since October, our county executive, […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice addressed several topics  at his weekly briefing with the media on March 10.  He began with Clarksburg, and then discussed the zoning rewrite and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) budget. He talked at length about his recent trip to Annapolis where he testified on behalf of the school […]

The Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations is preparing for their second trip to Annapolis this year, but this trip will be a little different — they’re hoping to show their numbers to lawmakers in Annapolis and demonstrate what they say is a dire need for school construction funding in Montgomery County. “Our hope for this […]

The MCCPTA, PTA leaders and members boarded a bus took hit the road to Annapolis Friday morning for one cause – to rally for what they say is much needed money for Montgomery County schools. The group will spend the day rallying and lobbying for County students and schools, hoping to make school funding a […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) officials held a back to school news conference on Aug. 26 at the newly modernized Weller Road Elementary School, where local leaders talked about “Planning and Building for Growth in MCPS.” The event was followed by a tour of the new school building. You can watch the news conference in […]

This week, February 2-8, 2013, Councilmember Valerie Ervin challenged Montgomery County residents and community leaders to join her in a challenge to live on a SNAP budget for a week. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that allows qualified individuals to purchase food to […]