Exclusive – Dr. McKnight’s UMD Salary Revealed
July 22, 2024 Last month it came out Dr. Monifa McKnight (former MCPS Superintendent who was paid over $1.3 million as part of her resignation) took a newly created position at The University of Maryland, College Park as Dean’s Fellow and Superintendent in Residence. We can now confirm Dr. McKnight’sContinue Reading
BOE Memo Neglects to Discuss Top MCPS Issues In Favor of Promoting Difficulty of Their Job
July 19, 2024 Over recent weeks, there has been a ton of discussion about the closing of the Montgomery Virtual Academy (including a hybrid in person/online discussion with Dr. Taylor). According to advocates, the majority of testimony at the BOE meeting this week was for the need to reinstate MVAContinue Reading
How Upcoming Boundary Studies are Impacted By Recently Released Planning Board School Utilization Report
July 17, 2024 As many of our readers are probably aware, there are several upcoming boundary studies the scope of which will include the majority of the county. This makes the school utilization report recently released by the Planning Board even more salient. This article will look over the schoolContinue Reading
MVA Shutters: Navigating the Future for Students and Staff
July 17, 2024 by Jasmine Jefferson (MCPS Summer RISE student) On June 11, 2024, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) made the momentous decision to close the Montgomery Virtual Academy (MVA) during a Board of Education (BOE) meeting. This decision caused shockwaves around Montgomery County. Students, staff, and families are nowContinue Reading
Local High School Students Found Political Blog – Politics Explained to Help Educate Youth
July 13, 2024 High school students Evan Kim and Alex Desantis-Baugh from the Bullis School founded a political blog called Politics Explained. With a mission to provide youth with a resource to form their own opinions, this blog is centered around non-partisan weekly updates solely on US politics. The blogsContinue Reading
Roundup of Local Politician Responses to Trump Assassination Attempt
July 13, 2024 Following the assassination attempt today on former President Donald Trump, many local politicians and political groups posted responses on X / Twitter. This article will show some of those responses and we will update with more as we find them. State Government The MoCo Show first reportedContinue Reading
NEW: MOCO News Aggregator
July 12, 2024 Introduced today, the new MOCO News Aggregator page will automatically be updated hourly with all of the most recent posts from a variety of local Montgomery County sources. Contact us to request a site be added or removed from the aggregator. You can find the MOCO NewsContinue Reading
Democracy’s Deep Dark Pit Gets Dug Deeper
July 11, 2024 What started as a typical MCDCC appointment process (one that has played out a half dozen times in the last year and a half) to undemocratically appoint a Delegate for District 16 by a vote of a handful of party insiders, took a dark twist earlier thisContinue Reading
MoCo BOE – Public comment sign-up for the July 18 Meeting is Open
July 11, 2024 Because the Board of Education only posts these listings to X (formerly known as Twitter) and their website, we make a habit of posting the links for people who don’t regularly check those sources to be able to sign up for public comment. Per the MoCo BOE:Continue Reading
Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition asks on Anti-Racist Speaker Coming to Montgomery County to Share Platform or Cancel Appearance
July 11, 2024 Later today, Tim Wise a prominent anti-racism educator will be speaking as part of a Montgomery County Public Libraries ‘Contemporary Conversations’ speaker series. The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC), a local advocate group “committed to ending the desecration of the historic Moses African Cemetery on River RoadContinue Reading