Executive Summary The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) requires standardized tests to measure proficiency in math. Data for MCPS Middle School Geometry scores in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 were analyzed to answer 3 questions: What is the percent of proficient students at each middle school by year? WhatContinue Reading
Introduction This is the first part of a series looking at the intersection of MCPS and County Planning. Clarksburg Background This article that explains the issues showing in August 2021 the school was more than 200% of capacity. This Change.org petition was signed by over 1,000 people really shows theContinue Reading
Update to previous article on this subject: https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-football-season-sacked-by-county-in-surprise-reversal-despite-decreasing-covid-rates/. Title Photo Credit: Julie Anderson Notes on Safety of Football To start, MCPS Coaches are voluntary positions. Most are also MCPS staff and have more likely than not been offered the opportunity for a vaccine. In late January 2021, the National FederationContinue Reading
Slides We have reduced our notes to just the text so if you want to follow along with the slides, you can find them here: https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BYJNUS60CCD3/$file/Opening%20Sch%20Recovery%20Ed%20%20210223%20PPT.pdf Advertisement Full Unofficial Notes PDF Link to Moderately Moco BOE Notes RepositoryContinue Reading
Meeting notes PDF viewer followed by downloadable link Link to Reopening Notes Repository: AdvertisementContinue Reading
Because of the depth of this data, there will be a Part 3 with more analysis. You can see Part 1 Here which was focused on demographics. Note: This Data was obtained by a MPIA request. It is dated December 8 and schools have been working to get responses fromContinue Reading
This is analysis of the responses data that MCPS presented to the BOE in December 2020 (Link to slides at bottom) It is Part 1 of the analysis as the Part 2 will be analysis of the full school by school breakdown from an MPIA request. Parent Survey Demographics ofContinue Reading
Here is the PDF of the notes (with clickable table of contents) of the reopening section of the 1/28/21 meeting: AdvertisementContinue Reading
Link to full PDF (with links and clickable table of contents): Link to full Resolution on Delay Opening Schools: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BX9FLK66B363/$file/05.01%20ADOPTED%20Delay%20Opening%20Schools%20210112.pdf Link to full Resolution on Academic Eligibility: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BX9FUA68D6CF/$file/05.01%20ADOPTED%20Extension%20Academic%20Eligibility%20Suspension%20210112.pdf Advertisement Link to Full Slides: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BX8KMY529AC7/$file/Opening%20Schls%20Recovery%20Ed%20210112%20PPT.pdfContinue Reading
Full MPIA response below in PDF format AdvertisementContinue Reading