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.
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 […]