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Montgomery County Police say a paraeducator who allegedly touched a student inappropriately did so on school grounds. According a news release from police, Robert Otis Wilson III, 23, of Silver Spring, was arrested at a restaurant in White Oak Thursday night after the Special Victims Investigations Division began an investigation into alleged sexual offenses by […]

It might cost you more money next school year for your student to participate in an extracurricular activity at a Montgomery County Public School. MCPS Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers is proposing an increase of  $2.50 to the Extracurricular Activity Fee that supports adult-supervised extracurricular activities, such as sports and clubs, for middle and high school students. […]

Jessica Mendez, a freshman at Gaithersburg High School, plays the trumpet, dances contemporary Jazz and enjoys horseback riding. The city of Gaithersburg is scheduled to present Mendez with a certificate of recognition on March 2 after she was crowned Miss American Teenager Junior 2015 in Alexandria, Va. “When you step on stage and all eyes […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Don’t leave the house without your umbrella today. Here are five more things to know today, Oct. 15, in Montgomery County: 1. Today is the day to update your Alert Montgomery information. 2. You can also sign up now for school-based flu vaccination clinics. 3. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett will hold a virtual town […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra, Ben Simon discusses how he started the Food Recovery Network and the traction it has gotten since its launch.

First-year college students are not always right out of high school. Last year, more than half of Montgomery College students were over the age of 20. MCTV shares the story of one such determined student. Meet Brenda Isaacs in this report: Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery […]

Dahlia Huh, a rising senior at Clarksburg High School, was sworn in as the 37th Student Member of the Board of Education (BOE) on July 1 at 7 p.m., at the Carver Educational Services Center in Rockville. She was sworn in by Clerk of the Court Loretta Knight. Huh was elected to serve a one-year […]

Dahlia Huh, a junior at Clarksburg High School, has been selected by her peers as the next student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education (SMOB). Her term begins on July 1. All secondary school students were eligible to vote in the SMOB election and about 77 percent cast ballots. Huh received 69 percent […]