In recent days, many principals reached out to their communities regarding the student-organized demonstrations schedules for Wednesday, March 14th.
Yesterday, MCPS Superintendent, Jack Smith, released the letter below to the MCPS community, supporting student advocacy and informing members of the community that any students who leave school would be receiving an unexcused absence.
The map above shows the boundaries and utilization figures at each MoCo high school.
Below you will see the same types of maps for middle and elementary schools.
Watkins Mill head coach, Mike Brown, would like to take this year’s tournament to the next level by adding teams from Northern Virginia, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore.
The cost is $250 for one team or $200 per team if more than one team signs up from one school (A and B team).
• $125 million for school security
• $50 million for school officers
While there’s a lot of campaigning left to do, I decided to put together a panel of six people that are pretty involved in the happenings within our county so that we can figure out which candidates may be leading this race a few months before the primaries.
Our panel consists of the following people (top left to right in the photo, then bottom left to right):
A BB gun was found in the locker of a Lakelands Park Middle School student this morning. The B.B. gun was broken and unusable, but Montgomery County Police was called […]
This comes on the heels of over 1,000 MCPS students walking out of school this past Wednesday to attend a gun control rally on Capitol Hill.
The event is limited to high school students in Montgomery County and will take place at the Blair High School auditorium.
Mildren Charley-Green, from Northwood High School in Silver Spring, was named MASSP (Maryland Association of Secondary Proncipals) High School Principal of the Year.
Myriam Yarbrough, principal at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Edward Shirley Award for Excellence in Educational Administration and Supervision.
More here from MCPS: news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/paint-branch-high-school-principal-wins-shirley-award/
Blair led 30-24 at the half in a back and forth game, but found themselves trailing by 3 with 12.5 seconds left In the game.
Trailing 53-56, the Blazers missed a three with 6 seconds left, got an offensive rebound, and drained one from long range with .8 seconds left. They went on to win in OT, 66-62.
”Dear MCPS Community:
In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla., I am writing to thank you for your questions, comments, concerns and critiques as we work to ensure our schools remain safe and welcoming places to learn for all of our students.
To honor him, the Montgomery County Council gave him a proclamation to recognize his extraordinary achievement. Councilmembers Tom Hucker, Nancy Floreen, and Craig Rice are pictured with Andrew as he receives his award. Andrew decided to have some fun and formed a circle with his fingers as he holds the award. When I asked him if this was done on purpose he replied with “the finger placement was intentional 😊.” More on that in a bit.
Andrew’s winning project was about designing a protocol to secure long, complex auctions that take place online. This provides security from malicious third parties and also prevents bidders from cheating auctioneer and vice versa. This field of study is known as cryptographic auctions.