Montgomery Community Media

The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Montgomery County Council of PTAs  and the  NAACP (Montgomery County, MD Branch Parents’ Council) held a Board of Education candidates forum Sept. 28 at John F. Kennedy High School. The forum included Jeanette Dixon and Phil Kauffman in the at large race; Brandon Rippeon and Rebecca Smondrowski in […]

Rebecca Smondrowski is the incumbent running for re-election to the District 2 seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education.

Monday may be the first day of school in Montgomery County but it is also the day several Gaithersburg city officials, and at least one Board of Education member, are touring a school in Laurel at the suggestion of a state senator. Gaithersburg City Council member Neil Harris said local officials were told that the […]

The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Montgomery County Council of PTAs  and the  NAACP (Montgomery County, MD Branch Parents’ Council) are hosting a Board of Education candidates forum on Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at John F. Kennedy High School. The forum includes Jeanette Dixon and Phil Kauffman in the at large race; […]

MyMCMedia has learned that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has canceled its annual Back to School Fair, which typically takes place the weekend before the first day of school. Students head back to class on August 29. Former MCPS interim superintendent Larry Bowers informed the Board of Education of the decision in a memo back […]

Rockville Mayor Bridget Newton testifed in opposition of a plan to move 100 buses from the Shady Grove Bus Depot to the Carver Educational Center Services parking lot, during Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. “We’re very interested in working with you and all of our Montgomery County partners to find you a solution for a problem […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education approved a $2.5 billion operating budget request for Fiscal Year 2017. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS-TV to view more of its local programming.

The presidential primary election is just over two  months away, and we now know who is running in the Montgomery County school board races. The deadline to file a petition of candidacy was Feb. 3rd. There are five candidates running for the Board of Education (BOE) At Large seat. The candidates include Jeanette Dixon of […]

There are three Board of Education (BOE) seats up for election this year, and the race for the at large seat currently held by Olney resident Phil Kauffman, and who has filed for reelection, is heating up. Silver Spring resident Jeanette Dixon, a former principal, and Takoma Park resident Sebastian Johnson , who once served as a […]

The President of the Montgomery County Board of Education, Patricia O’Neill, has released a statement about a new development in the search for the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools. You can read her statement, below: “On Sunday, May 17, 2015, Dr. Andrew Houlihan informed the Montgomery County Board of Education that he is […]