Nimah tweeted, “While running for SMOB, I had a wonderful, enriching, and positive experience. I’m speaking out, however, because I recently received vile, disgusting, and hateful messages- attached below. I was disappointed and upset by the messages, but heartened and empowered by the support.”
“I will never let cowards shake me, and I will never let hate change me” said Nimah in a later tweet.
4 of the top 5 Maryland schools are in MoCo.
1. Churchill
2. Poolesville
3. Wootton
5. Quince Orchard
You’ll find familiar companies like Costco (#5), Wegmans (#8), MasterCard (#20), sprawled across the top 20, but coming in at #45 is our very own Montgomery County Public Schools.
The description reads: “Montgomery County Public Schools is the largest school system in Maryland and the 17th largest in the U.S., with an enrollment of 156,000 students in 202 schools. Those students come from 157 countries and speak 138 languages. The system has an annual budget of $2.39 billion. Montgomery County, north of Washington, D.C., includes the cities of Rockville, Bethesda, Gaithersburg, and Silver Spring.”
Chick-Fil-A is offering a free chicken sandwich to teachers from 11am-10pm at participating locations on Tuesday, May 8th. The only MoCo location that told us they’d be participating is the Olney location (we made calls to Montgomery Mall, Kentlands, Germantown, Rockville, and both Silver Spring locations).
All Chipotle restaurants will be offering a “Buy One Get One Free” deal for burritos, bowls, salads, or orders of tacos from 3pm to close on Tuesday, May 8th.
The bill will create a $15 million program that will provide scholarships (up to $5k) for students from families that earn less than $125k a year or single adults earning less than $90k a year.
Also necessary to qualify, students must:
What does this mean?
Effective July 1, 2018
1. Salary scales will be increased by 2.0 percent.
2. All eligible employees will receive scheduled step increases.
Effective July 1, 2019
1. Salary scales will be increased by 1.0 percent.
2. All eligible employees will receive scheduled step increases.
Photo of Bayard Rustin courtesy of Biography According to the MCPS website: The Board of Education voted on Thursday, April 12, to name the new elementary school in the Richard […]
Goodwin has been an MCPS employee for 43 years, spending the last 19 years as part of the Whitman administration (14 of them as principal). He began his MCPS career as an English teacher at Springbrook High School.
A replacement is expected to be named by the end of April.
Montgomery County has strong ties to many celebrities, but we wanted to list a few that aren’t discussed as much as the usual suspects. Check out this list of just 10 of the thousands of celebrities with MoCo ties below:
Pamela Reed: You may recognize her from one of her many movie or television roles (Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Jericho, NCIS: Los Angeles, etc.), but before she went to Hollywood, Reed lived in Silver Spring and attended Springbrook High School.
Some students walked out of school and headed to the metro so they can continue their protest in Washington D.C., while others protested at assigned locations at their schools.