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: Administrators, BOE, Community Feedback, Community Interviews, County Council, Education & Culture, MCPS, Superintendent

February 13, 2024 – Employee that allegedly hindered OIG’s Investigation and was allegedly a key source of cronyism and retaliation in MCPS is back from Administrative Leave Update 2/13/24 11:30pm – This article was updated to correct the title (and subsequent details) which was originally written as “Chief of DistrictwideContinue Reading

In: Administrators, BOE, MCPS

February 2, 2024 – 5:25pm. Updated 6:30pm. Confirming our previous posts on social media that Dr. McKnight would be resigning today (even guessing the time within a few minutes), the Board of Education has announced that they have agreed to mutually separate effective immediately: Today the Montgomery County Board ofContinue Reading

In: County Council, County Executive, Demographics, Government, Hate / Bias Incidents, Hate / Bias Incidents, Incident Response, Local Government, MCPS, Montgomery County Police Department, Population, Safety

Updated and edited January 21, 2024. Posted January 16, 2024. Background We’ve been working on this report on hate and bias incidents in Montgomery County Maryland for the last few years. This report is based on data from July 2022 through October 31, 2023. It is important to note thatContinue Reading

In: City of Gaithersburg, City of Rockville, Community Feedback, County Executive, Esther Wells Tweets, Government, House of Delegates, Information, Local Government, Maryland, MCPS, MoCo Delegation

January 14th, 2024. This article summary is based on this X/Twitter thread by Esther Wells (used with permission). Full video: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting (youtube.com) Starting Now: 1/12 Montgomery County House Delegation Meeting. Weekly cadence of Fridays at 9am to keep up with what’s going on. CE ElrichContinue Reading

In: Administrators, CEOs, County Council, Education & Culture, Incident Response, MCPS, Montgomery County Police Department, Restorative Justice, SROs

Multiple sources reached out to us regarding the January 2nd fight at B-CC (Bethesda Chevy Chase High School) that prompted a press release from Councilmember Jawando on January 4th, 2024 and news articles by MyMCMedia and MoCo360. Interestingly, these articles both state that  B-CC principal Dr. Shelton L. Mooney willContinue 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