Montgomery Community Media

Parents packed into the Rachel Carson Elementary School media room Wednesday to try to figure out what to do about the school’s persistent overcrowding issue. Tops on the list for the school’s Parent Teacher Association is having the county look into building a new school within the Lakelands community in Gaithersburg as well as taking […]

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 […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee and its Education Committee will meet jointly at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 13, for worksessions on the County’s School Resource Officers (SRO) program and its program to have cameras on school buses to deter drivers who attempt to illegally pass stopped buses. The Public Safety Committee, which is […]

In this MyMCMedia documentary, students at Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery Village incorporated their third grade curriculum into the creation of an original opera. Watch their journey and their story here:

Sarah Manchester, a Takoma Park Middle School math teacher, recently won one million dollars on the game show, Wheel of Fortune. You can watch her win and check out her reaction, and her family’s reaction, below: For more on this story, see The Washington Post’s report. OMG!! Takoma Park MS teacher Sarah Manchester just won […]

The Montgomery County Council at approximately 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 13, is expected to take action on a resolution urging the Maryland District Court to increase fines to $250 for drivers caught illegally passing stopped school buses by cameras mounted on the buses. The Council also will continue its review of County Executive Isiah […]

A Kingsview Middle School student brought a knife to school today (April 29), according to Principal Jimmy D’Andrea in an email notification to parents. D’Andrea writes in his note that the student displayed the knife at a bus stop and on the bus this morning. Another student alerted administrators, D’Andrea said, and police and security […]

The Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to name a new Clarksburg cluster elementary school after F. Wilson Wims, a civic and community leader who lived in Clarksburg his entire life. Wilson Wims Elementary School, which opens in August, will be the 202nd school in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). The naming process for […]

As of March 6,  Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has used a total of nine emergency weather days (snow days). The 2013-2014 school calendar, as approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education, has four snow days built in, so MCPS is five days over its allotted number of snow days. The state of Maryland […]

Despite recent discussion that Montgomery County may not get the school construction funding they’re hoping for this session, a group of County parents, advocates and political leaders will be traveling to Annapolis on March 6 to show legislators they’re not standing down when it comes to fighting for a solution to what they say is […]