Editor Note: A recent decision about the charter amendment process has reignited conversation about the last time around. Ballot Question C Added On August 4th 2020 the County Council introduced and adopted a resolution for a ballot question adding two seats to the county council. This question was placed onContinue Reading
What is a Cropduster? I had no idea Olney was getting a semi-pro baseball team this summer until a neighbor and fellow parent of young children brought it up. “Did you hear about this new Olney semi-pro team. The Cropdusters?” Nope. I confessed I had not. What is a Cropduster? Continue Reading
Finding The Museum Drive into the quaint village of Sandy Spring, Maryland from points west and you’ll see a fairly nondescript sign for a “Slave Museum” telling you to turn northwest on Brooke Rd. Follow this road through some twists and turns and on your left, the “Sandy Spring SlaveContinue Reading
Because of the depth of this data, there will be a Part 3 with more analysis. You can see Part 1 Here which was focused on demographics. Note: This Data was obtained by a MPIA request. It is dated December 8 and schools have been working to get responses fromContinue Reading
This is analysis of the responses data that MCPS presented to the BOE in December 2020 (Link to slides at bottom) It is Part 1 of the analysis as the Part 2 will be analysis of the full school by school breakdown from an MPIA request. Parent Survey Demographics ofContinue Reading
Full notes with table of contents and links: We’re using our reach to help locally owned small businesses. If you’re looking for pet sitting services, check out Happy Paws. AdvertisementContinue Reading
PDF of the notes. This is the version that also has links. Click on the question in the Table of Contents and it will take you there. Link to full video here: AdvertisementContinue Reading
Full unofficial notes PDF: Link to new MCPS Covid Dashboard: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/dashboard/ Meeting Video: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/live.aspx Agenda (no slides yet but may be updated): Advertisement https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/Public Full Unofficial notes Part 1 meeting: Unofficial Meeting Notes:Continue Reading
Below are key links from the meeting along with the Unofficial meeting summary by June Traicoff and Moderately MOCO. Here’s the PDF: Full meeting charts here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/20201106-Version4-ReturntoSchoo.pdf MCPS Community Update: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2020-2021/community-update-20201106.html Advertisement Student Survey (probably the most important part to get every MCPS student to provide input – both pages goContinue Reading
After receiving feedback from parents and childcare providers from the proposed executive order that reduced child care facilities to 50% capacity The county council requested and received an updated order: Twitter post on the update from Councilmember Andrew Friedson: When asked on Twitter if there were any other changes toContinue Reading