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Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers is recommending a six-year, $1.72 billion construction plan for Montgomery County Public Schools in the fiscal year 2017-2022 Capital Improvements Program. The plan represents a $172 million increase over the current six-year CIP, which schools officials say is needed to deal with the district’s rapid enrollment growth. A new CIP is […]

A national search for the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is underway again. The recruiting firm Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates (HYA) is leading the search. According to a blog post on the MCPS website, the search will be guided by the tenets of the school district’s strategic planning framework and desired […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is scheduled to relaunch its search for a new superintendent in the fall. MCPS Spokesperson Dana Tofig said school officials “anticipate” having a new person to lead Montgomery County’s school system by July 2016. In May, Andrew Houlihan, the chief academic officer of the Houston Independent School District, was the “preferred candidate” to […]

Montgomery County Public Schools staff attended a two-day conference on leadership and literacy earlier this summer. MCPS-TV has the story. Visit our PEG partner MCPS-TV to view more of its local programming.

Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers is recommending that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) eliminate hundreds of positions, delay further implementation of a districtwide technology initiative, and make several other reductions to close a $53 million budget shortfall for next school year. The Montgomery County Board of Education will consider the recommendations at a meeting on Tuesday, […]

Maryland students in grades 3-8 and high school will spend less time taking State assessments next year as a result of changes approved unanimously by the multi-state consortium governing the tests the Maryland Department of Education announced this week. The Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) yesterday voted to consolidate […]

Here’s your daily look at the events and stories that people are talking about today, May 21, in Montgomery County: 1. County executives from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties are expected to meet with Gov. Larry Hogan today on the Purple Line project. Here’s what County Executive Isiah Leggett has to say about the meeting. 2. […]

UPDATED May 20, 3:15 p.m.The Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint Larry Bowers as interim superintendent of schools for Montgomery County Public Schools through June 30, 2016. ORIGINAL POST The Montgomery County Board of Education is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to take action on the conditional appointment of the interim superintendent of schools […]

Here’s your daily look at the events and stories that people are talking about today, May 20, in Montgomery County: 1. The Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education is holding a meeting at 3 p.m. today to appoint an interim superintendent. 2. Steve Dorfman is tomorrow’s speaker at the MCM Small Business Event at […]

The president of the Montgomery County Education Association, one of the organizations helping to select the next Montgomery County Public Schools’ superintendent, says he was disappointed the group only got to meet one candidate for the job. The educators’ union was one of more than a dozen organizations the Montgomery County School Board invited to […]