Nora Gordon argues that Bill 48-26’s $2,500 property tax credit for MCPS employees is framed as housing affordability but functions as a bonus for fewer than one in five district employees.Continue Reading
The Montgomery County Board of Education takes up the elementary and middle school closure and consolidation study at a noon work session Thursday, October 8. MCPS says the meeting will not approve criteria or identify any school for closure.Continue Reading
Poolesville and Clarksburg principals wrote jointly to families Tuesday after a parking lot fight following Monday’s girls flag football game sent an adult to the hospital.Continue Reading
Four candidates are running in Montgomery County’s two contested Board of Education races, and every county voter votes in both. Here is what each said about the biggest issue in the race, plus two candidate forums in October.Continue Reading
The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County hosts a forum for the two contested Board of Education races on Wednesday, October 14, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Montgomery Community Television studio in Rockville. In-person registration closes October 6.Continue Reading
MCPS moved from letter-grade combinations to averaging numerical marking-period grades. Intern Ahana Samantray argues the reform may be sound, but students partway through high school were not given enough time to adapt.Continue Reading
The Red Line shutdown between North Bethesda and Friendship Heights ends this weekend, and the temporary bus lanes that carried its replacement shuttles down Rockville Pike and Wisconsin Avenue start coming out the same day the trains come back. The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration said Thursday itContinue Reading
A lot happens in Montgomery County every day. Keeping up can mean jumping between websites, articles, and dozens of social media posts. Moderately MOCO is preparing to launch a new daily email designed to make that easier. The email will bring the most important local news and high school sportsContinue Reading
Montgomery County Public Schools is holding six back-to-school fairs on Saturday, August 22, replacing its single countywide event with regional sites designed to improve access for families across the county. The fairs will run at different times at Albert Einstein, Paint Branch, Wheaton, Richard Montgomery, Gaithersburg, and Seneca Valley highContinue Reading
The developer told city staff it had sold no homes at Rockshire this year, experienced several cancellations, was evaluating an exit strategy and expected to take a loss on the residential portion. A newly obtained and independently verified City of Rockville email confirms the central factual basis of Councilmember AdamContinue Reading