Montgomery Community Media

More than 11,000 fifth grade students visited the Music Center at Strathmore last month. MCPS and Strathmore collaborated with the jazz education organization JazzReach to offer a new blues program. MCPS-TV reports. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.   Related:

Trick-or-Treaters will have plenty of time to get into their goblins, ghosts and that-girl-from-the-Frozen-movie costumes on Halloween. There is no school for Montgomery County Public Schools students on Oct. 31. It is a professional day for teachers to prepare for report card distribution, according to the MCPS calendar. Montgomery County Fire Chief Steve Lohr has […]

Two new state tests will not be part of the graduation requirements for Maryland students this year or next year, according to a new plan approved by the The Maryland Department of Education this week. Under the plan approved by the State Board, passing the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) […]

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr is recommending that $220.8 million be added to the district’s current six-year school construction plan in order to address significant space needs in the school system. The proposed amendments would increase the Fiscal Year 2015-2020 Capital Improvements Program budget to $1.75 billion from the $1.53 billion plan approved […]

A public meeting has been scheduled in Germantown for that community to weigh in on a proposal to put a cell phone tower at Roberto Clemente Middle School. The meeting is scheduled for Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. inside the school’s cafeteria at 18808 Waring Station Road. Feeder elementary school families are invited because a […]

Ridgeview Middle School students got a chance to voice their ideas and concerns with Superintendent Joshua Starr and the student member of the Board of Education at the first of four student halls this school year. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

A communications company has requested a cell tower at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown. Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig confirmed that a company has approached that school at 18808 Waring Station Road as a potential site for its communications equipment. He did not have specifics about the type of equipment or the […]

Montgomery County Public Schools and the NAACP recently kicked off another year of collaboration at a meeting at Richard Montgomery High School. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS TV to view more of its local programming.

A new elementary school is recommended for the Clarksburg Village community to handle the large influx of new students in that area of the county. Superintendent Joshua Starr released his recommendation Wednesday for a site in Clarksburg to meet that need. His recommendation is in line with a site selection advisory committee who suggested the […]

Bullying, the environment, teen suicide, school construction and funding: It was a night for students to speak up. The fifth Montgomery County Council Youth Town Hall Meeting was held on Oct. 15 at the County Council Building in Rockville. The event was open to high and middle school students from public and private schools from […]