Moderately MOCO cover: MCPS school buses, every depot over capacity, buses to park at MCPS properties starting 2027-28

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Montgomery County Public Schools says it is running out of places to park its school buses, and that next school year it will park some of them at its own properties that will not be operating as schools. “ALL current transportation depots are operating exceeding capacity,” according to a slideContinue Reading

Moderately MOCO cover: MCPS on school closures, no schools picked yet, board vote set for April 15, 2027

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Montgomery County Public Schools says it has not chosen any schools to close. The school system posted the statement Wednesday, Oct. 28, from its official Facebook page, replying on Moderately MOCO’s post about a new Montgomery Perspective analysis of possible elementary school closures in Rockville. The full statement: “MCPS Official–DespiteContinue Reading

MCPS dual enrollment: 289 students lost MCPS tuition aid, 102 dropped

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MCPS told 289 high school students this summer that it would no longer pay their Montgomery College tuition, and 102 of them dropped their college classes, according to a County Council staff memo discussed at a committee session Monday. MCPS officials told the committee they do not know why theContinue Reading

MCPS budget: 415 positions cut, 47 laid off, 162 transferred

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The fiscal 2027 budget the Montgomery County Board of Education adopted in June cut 415 full-time positions. At a County Council committee session Monday, MCPS officials said the cuts ended with 47 people laid off, and a Council staff memo shows 162 more were involuntarily transferred and 20 retired fromContinue Reading

Opinion: MCPS is building high school seats it does not need

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Anonymous opinion submission. Moderately MOCO knows the author’s identity. MCPS is scheduled to complete a new high school at Damascus in 2031 with about 700 additional seats to relieve overcrowding at Clarksburg. The problem is, according to the fall2026 CIP, in 2031 after the addition is completed, Clarksburg will beContinue Reading

Van Grack to MCPS: Rebuild Wootton on Wootton Parkway

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Rockville City Councilmember Adam Van Grack plans to testify at the Montgomery County Board of Education’s public hearing on the school system’s capital budget Monday at 5 p.m., asking MCPS to plan for enrollment growth in its Central Region, fund repairs at its most deteriorated buildings and commit to aContinue Reading