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Here are your five things to know today, March 31, in Montgomery County: 1. Play Ball! Montgomery County Parks is opening all athletic fields tomorrow so spring sports can officially hit the ground running. 2. MCPS students will have to make make up just one snow day, June 15 after getting a waiver from the State […]

Sending students to school on Monday, June 15 will cost the school system between $600,000 and $750,000 more  the average school day. That’s the day, Montgomery County Public Schools has set to make up for the one snow day that has to be made up this year. State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lillian Lowery agreed […]

Here are your five things to know today, March 25 in Montgomery County. Tonight you get a chance to share your opinion on the future of Montgomery Village. Find out how. You can destress today. Here’s when and where. MCPS students could find out in a matter of days when their summer vacation starts. Did […]

It’s up to the State Superintendent whether Montgomery County Public Schools students will have to add days to their school calendar in June. The Maryland State Board of Education today voted to allow local school systems to apply for waivers of up to three days from the 180-instructional day requirement, and authorized the State Superintendent Dr. […]

Montgomery County Public Schools officially sent a letter Tuesday to the Maryland State Board of Education to request a waiver to go three days below the 180 days of instruction required by state law. The 2014-2015 calendar adopted by the Montgomery County Board of Education includes 184 days of instruction, with the last day of […]

It’s possible that Montgomery County Public Schools students won’t have to make up the three snow days they missed after all. MCPS School Board has applied for a waiver of up to three days from the Maryland State Department of Education. According to Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers, making up the three snow days would cost the school system […]

It is “highly unlikely we will have school tomorrow.” That is according to MCPS’s spokesman Dana Tofig who told MyMCMedia Wednesday that if snow accumulation predictions are accurate school will likely be cancelled Thursday. “If it is a foot that is a lot of snow that has to be moved around,” Tofig said. Forecasters are […]

Here are five things to know today, March 4, in Montgomery County: 1. We had some freezing rain yesterday but forecasters say snow is on the way late tonight. 2. A Montgomery County Council committee has tabled a proposal to renovate the Council Office Building in Rockville. Find out what was being proposed here. 3. Antsy […]

Here are five things to know today, March 3, in Montgomery County: 1. We are once again under a winter weather advisory until 10 p.m. 2. Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal gives his thoughts on his former boss Senator Barbara Mikulski and her decision not to run for reelection in 2016. 3. Silver Spring parents who […]

Montgomery County Public Schools are closed today due to emergency weather conditions. All school and community activities in school buildings also are canceled. Administrative offices will open two hours late. Day care programs in school buildings may open at 10:30 a.m All MCPS schools are CLOSED today (March 2); Administrative offices open two hours late. […]