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
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
July 10, 2024 We began hearing earlier in the week that Seth Adams, MCPS Deputy Chief of Facilities Management, will be resigning from his position. It was confirmed by MCPS this morning (see MCPS statement below). Statement from MCPS PIO Per MCPS PIO, “Seth Adams, our Deputy Chief of FacilitiesContinue Reading
July 9th, 2024 The University of Maryland College of Education announced on Monday that Former MCPS Superintendent Dr. Monifa McKnight has been named as its inaugural Dean’s Fellow and Superintendent in Residence starting in August. It appears this is a new role for the university. Dr. McKnight received a largeContinue Reading
In part one of this series, we used AI to iterate on the massive number of responses to the new MCPS superintendent’s survey (still open until 7/5/2024). He also shared the full results in an email that you can see here. However, it was noticed that the word counts fromContinue Reading
July 3, 2024 Background New MCPS Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor started out his with openness to community input by sending out a survey to be taken by all: students, teachers, parents, and everyone else about MCPS. Dr. Taylor also promised an appeal to transparency by making the anonymized answers publicContinue Reading
On July 1, 2024 Montgomery County Board of Education formally installed Praneel Suvarna as it’s 47th Student member of the Board of Education (SMOB). See more from MCPS after this video interview that we did with Praneel when he was a finalist for the position: Per MCPS: “I am honoredContinue Reading
June 30, 2024 On her last day, Interim Superintendent Dr. Monique Felder sent out the following email (Note that new Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor starts tomorrow): “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Dear MCPS Colleagues and Families, As IContinue Reading
June 27, 2024 Rockville, Maryland – Montgomery County Maryland Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi announced today the release of a new Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Memorandum of Investigation, MCPS’ Procurement of Crisis Management Services, OIG Publication # OIG-24-17, detailing the results of an OIG Investigation into the Montgomery County PublicContinue Reading
June 26, 2024 Confirming our previous reporting from sources about a week ago, MCPS today appointed outgoing Montgomery County Police Department Chief Jones (who recently retired from MCPD and was replaced by new Police Chief Marc Yamada) in a new position called the Chief of Security and Compliance (read onContinue Reading