MCPS Superintendent Jack Smith has released his recommendation following the boundary study for some of MoCo’s upcounty high schools.
The study and recommendation affect Clarksburg, Northwest, and Seneca Valley High School.
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The move also brings MCPS into alignment with other regional school systems, including Frederick, Howard and Prince George’s counties, as well as Fairfax County, all of which require 60 college credits for substitute teacher eligibility.
MCPS received feedback from partners, including Montgomery College, the Montgomery County Council of PTAs (MCCPTA), school-based staff, teachers, principals and employee associations.
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The school year has come to an end, but we’re sure the staff at Cloverly Elementary School in Silver Spring will remain busy this summer.
The elementary school staff welcomed 8 new babies in just six months!
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Isaac Cudjoe graduates from Seneca Valley in 2012. He has a masters in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence from Brandeis University.
Together these two young men have started Brothers With Books. Kevin and Isaac noticed that students aren’t reading as much as they should, so they wanted to make sure that students had adequate access to books.
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Most recently, a tweet from a local journalist sparked outrage in the Watkins Mill and Northwood high school communities.
The news reporter posted about a Northwood High School student who was charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute on campus. But while reporting on this, the reporter also included other Montgomery County Schools and their “serious drug” incident statistics during the 2017-2018 school year.
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Both are 2018 Wootton graduates and University of Maryland computer science majors. Sapiro is the creator of the MyMCPS+, MoCoSnow, and BrickBreaker iOS apps. He has wanted to develop apps for androids and has finally made it happen along with his fellow developer, Kundan Razdan. The duo plans on releasing an android version of the popular school closing and delay Prediction app, MoCoSnow by next winter.
MCPS moved away from EdLine a couple years back, which was used by students and parents/guardians to monitor grades.
A program called MyMCPS is now used by the county and the website allows students to view their grades.
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In this proposed solution Northwood High School students would relocate to Woodward High School (where Tilden Middle School is currently located on Old Georgetown Rd.) for the 2023-2024 school year. Northwood High School is 6.9 miles away from Woodward High School.
Northwood students would return to Northwood in September 2025 as final site work activities continue through summer 2026.
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Jump start the process by creating an online profile: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/careers/
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This decision comes on the heels of MoCo health officials declaring a “public health crisis” with the increase of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults.
The most recent data showed a 17.5% increase in chlamydia cases and a 29% increase in gonorrhea cases in the county.
Go to MoCo School Board Approves Plan To Offer Condoms In Health Rooms Of All High Schools
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The top 4 high schools in the state are MCPS schools. The following MCPS high schools are ranked out of 263 schools:
1. Poolesville High School
2. Winston Churchill High School
3. Walt Whitman High School
4. Thomas S. Wootton High School
7. Richard Montgomery High School
8. Walter Johnson High School
10. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
11. Montgomery Blair High School
16. Quince Orchard High School
26. Northwest High School
35. Damascus High School
36. Sherwood High School
38. Rockville High School
42. Paint Branch High School
47. Clarksburg High School
51. Albert Einstein High School
53. James Hubert Blake High School
55. Wheaton High School
59. Col. Zadok Magruder High School
87. Gaithersburg High School
90. Springbrook High School
91. Seneca Valley High School
95. Watkins Mill High School
113. Northwood High School
*129. John F. Kennedy High School