June 18, 2024 A day after MCPS announced the selection of Dr. Thomas Taylor as the new superintendent (you can find much more information from our reporting yesterday here), MCPS has now sent out a press release via email and text with some information, a video introducing Dr. Taylor (thoughContinue Reading
June 17, 2024 On Friday, MCPS communicated that the Board of Education would be having a press conference on Monday June 17 at 3pm to announce their new superintendent candidate. We began hearing rumors about who the finalists were about a week ago and that a decision was imminent, andContinue Reading
June 14, 2024 On Friday June 14 starting around 4:15pm communication began coming out that the “Montgomery County Board of Education will make an announcement about the superintendency of Montgomery County Public Schools at 3:00 p.m., Monday, June 17” along with other information about the budget being approved Full textContinue Reading
May 23, 2024 – Opinion By Anonymous Submitter The Student Member of the Board of Education, Sami Saeed introduced a resolution on May 9 to add 4 half-day wellness days to the school calendar, meaning in practice to convert 4 full days to half days. Free afternoons out of schoolContinue Reading
May 7, 2024 Background In January 2024, we posted the initial Part 1 which featured a very detailed series of graphs and charts showing how anti-Jewish Hate/Bias incidents in Montgomery County Maryland have increased over the timeframe of July 2022 to October 2024 (inclusive) as compared to Hate/Bias incidents againstContinue Reading
May 6, 2024 – By June Traicoff I was inspired by the Yes/No summary of school board candidate responses from the Moderately MOCO forum, as well as the summary table of school board candidates from the Montgomery County Taxpayers League (MCTL). I will have printouts of both with me onContinue Reading
April 29, 2024 – By Dana Noga – Photos from MCPD post. With the Board of Education Primary Election heating up, questions regarding School Resource Officers (SROs), Community Engagement Officers (CEOs), and security in schools have come to the forefront. MCPS graduate, activist and concerned parent Dana Noga writes aboutContinue Reading
Last week on Friday April 19, 2024, a trespasser at John F. Kennedy High School (MCPS Silver Spring, MD) wielded a knife during related to altercation involving a student. Concern MCPS is Downplaying Incident We received these videos from someone concerned that the letter from MCPS downplayed the incident byContinue Reading
April 23, 2024 Earlier this year, MCPS announced that their school bus tracking app would be launched this semester and that the Pilot was underway with families at 10 schools. Last week, MCPS issued a statement about the cancellation of the release of the bus tracking app. In this letter,Continue Reading
April 18, 2024 We hosted the our first ever in person Moderately MOCO event on April 15 – a Board of Education candidate forum which you can watch here or click below. It is the month leading up to the May 14 Primary Election and you can see a collectionContinue Reading