Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Council’s Education Committee has scheduled a worksession for Feb. 2, to talk about the Montgomery County Public Schools’ policies and procedures regarding child abuse allegations that occur on school property. The worksession was scheduled in response to community concerns regarding MCPS delays in informing the respective school communities when alleged incidents of […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is expected to present his Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Operating Budget recommendation to the Board of Education today at about noon. Starr will hold a media briefing after the presentation at 1:30 p.m. to discuss his recommendation and answer questions. The meeting is at the Carver Educational […]

Circa 2012 – a local high school gym, Quince Orchard (QO) boys basketball team was about to lose when the chants started “Old Mill, Old Mill”. Opposing school teenagers rubbing salt in a fresh wound. You see QO lost a few months earlier in the 2011 4A State Football Championship in the last seconds to […]

“There is more that we can do.” That was the comment made by MCPS Superintendent Joshua P. Starr in a YouTube video he made following a Montgomery County Police press conference about the sexual abuse allegations against one of the school system’s former substitute teachers. Police announced that nine other students reported abuses by the […]

One newly elected member of the Montgomery County Board of Education and three returning members are scheduled to be sworn in to office tonight. Incoming At-large member Jill Ortman-Fouse and three incumbents—Judith Docca (District 1), Michael Durso (District 5) and Patricia O’Neill (District 3)—will be sworn in during a ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Carver Educational […]

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 […]

It’s Giving Tuesday. Here are five more things to know today, Dec. 2, in Montgomery County: 1. Traffic may be impacted this afternoon when President Obama visits NIH in Bethesda. 2. Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett announced a new six point economic plan during his Inaugural Address. Watch him take the Oath of Office here. […]

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 […]

Jose Pineda, a former substitute teacher who was recently arrested and charged with having inappropriate contact with several Montgomery County Public Schools students, will continue to be held on $150,000 bond after a bond hearing was held today in Montgomery County District Court. Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Spokesman Ramon Korionoff said the former teacher remains […]