In: BOE, Boundary Study, Budget, Demographics, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, Overcrowding, School Funding, Transportation

November 20, 2024 Featured image of Crown High School under construction by MyDrone.pro on 11/11/2024 There have been a few meetings regarding the upcoming MCPS Boundary Studies and also the budget as it related to the CIP (Capital Improvements Plan) which has major impacts on timing and considerations for theContinue Reading

In: BOE, Budget, Class Sizes, County Council, Grades, IB and AP Classes, Local Government, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, Overcrowding, School Funding, Special Education

As part of the approval of the 2025 FY MCPS Operating Budget, there was a new item in the annual operating budget that requires reporting of class sizes which reads: “MCPS will provide to the Council a report on actual class sizes in the 2024-2025 school year. This report willContinue Reading

In: 2024 Elections, BOE, Budget, CEOs, Education & Culture, Free Events, Grades, Hate / Bias Incidents, Incident Response, Local Government, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, Safety, Transportation, Virtual Academy, Virtual Events

September 5, 2024 Moderately MOCO is cosponsoring a virtual Montgomery county board of education candidate forum on September 19 at 7 PM! After the success of our in person forum before the primary, we are teaming up with several other cohosts to put on a virtual forum that will beContinue Reading

In: Administrators, BOE, Budget, County Council, Education & Culture, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, School Funding, Superintendent

June 10, 2024 It wasn’t long ago that MCPS was proclaiming hiring issues and teacher shortages. Then last month, MCPS threw a Hail Mary after receiving only $150 million of the $180 million they requested from the County. As reported by Montgomery Perspective, this was a higher percent received ofContinue Reading

In: Local Government, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, School Funding

Background and Source Data The state of Maryland reports on per-pupil expenditures Maryland reports on per-pupil expenditures and defines them as follows: “School-level per-pupil expenditures are local education agency (LEA) operating expenditures directly attributed to schools or allocated to schools based on certain criteria and reported as a per-pupil orContinue Reading

In: Enrollment, Government, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, Research, School

February 25, 2024 Background and Source Data Public school enrollment numbers by Maryland county and by school level was determined for the school years: 2019-2020 was the last pre-pandemic school year, 2023-2024 is the current school year. School levels are: Data sources are official enrollment from the State of Maryland.Continue Reading

In: MCPS, MCPS Enrollment, MPIA, Testing, Virtual Academy

December 20, 2023 Background Since the start of the pandemic, questions have arisen based upon both the effectiveness and demand of virtual learning. This has continued as MCPS created a Virtual Academy when most students returned to the classrooms. Moderately MOCO received an exclusive MPIA response with answers to questionsContinue Reading

In: BOE, Demographics, IB and AP Classes, MCPS, MCPS Enrollment

MCPS Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Course Numbers by School Background and Source Data The number of AP and IB courses offered by high school was analyzed for the years 2020 to 2022. The numbers are found in the “2022 Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Course Enrollment andContinue Reading