After over three months of deliberation, MCPS released the Fiscal Year 2017 Operating Budget March 15.
The 2017 budget will include increased spending on instruction, with over 81 percent of the budget...
MCPS’ search for a new superintendent is over. The Board of Education (BOE) Feb. 4 conditionally appointed Dr. Jack Smith as the next superintendent effective July 1.
Smith is currently the interim...
These days, it seems like the world has too many problems and there is nothing kids can do about it. Controversial issues like feminism and racial discrimination can barely be discussed in the adult world...
Ever since Joshua Starr announced his resignation as MCPS superintendent Feb. 3, the Montgomery County Board of Education (BOE) has been working hard to find his successor.
Although Starr’s resignation...
MCPS announced Nov. 24 a temporary budget freeze that will affect staffing and purchasing in schools throughout the county.
According to a Nov. 24 memo, MCPS announced that a budget freeze would become...
By Thomas Atkinson, Public Relations Manager
• November 21, 2014
Sophomore Jacob Friedman remembers having to walk to school on icy, uncleared sidewalks with start of winter just around the corner.
“Many people didn’t shovel the sidewalks, including the school,”...
From an increased dependency on technology to a student population that is growing by thousands each year, in the three years since Joshua Starr became Superintendent of MCPS, he and the rest of MCPS leadership...
Maryland State Department of Education approved April 2 a plan to have MCPS hold school on Monday, April 21 and Friday, June 13 to make up for the 10 days of school missed due to snow days.
Initially...
By Yash Nigam, Production Editor
• January 10, 2014
MCPS acted irresponsibly by deciding against a school delay Jan. 7, the coldest day of not only this year but also the past two decades. Its inaction and failure to realize that subzero temperatures can...
A new report published by the Office of superintendents confirms that the MCPS class of 2012 outscored all other counties in Maryland for AP testing. In 2012, 67.3 percent of MCPS students took one or...
By Emilie Plesset, Online Editor-In-Chief
• March 1, 2013
The Montgomery County Board of Education approved a request at its Jan. 8 meeting to add $364,000 of funding into the School Securities System Projects which will allow all MCPS elementary schools to install...
CHS staff and administration are working to improve financial processes and procedures after receiving a subpar 2012 internal audit from MCPS.
Some of the audit’s criticisms included incorrectly classified...
