Drive for Supplies Collects School Supplies for Needy Families

MCPS Schools Collect nearly 15,000 Pounds of School Supplies for a Second Straight Year ROCKVILLE, MD—The annual Drive for Supplies press conference on July 27 will celebrate the collection ...(more)

Elementary School Students Participate in Reading Event at USDE

Nearly 50 students from Gaithersburg Elementary School and Washington Grove Elementary School traveled today to the front lawn of the United States Department of Education (USDE) in Washington, D.C., ...(more)

Results of Maryland School Assessments Continue To Show Steady Progress

No Title I Schools are on School Improvement List; Four Schools Exit School Improvement In 2009, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students in elementary and middle school, overall, c ...(more)

Comment Sought on Two Tentatively Approved Board Policies

Comment Sought on Two Policies on Funding Employee Retirement/Pension System and Postemployment Benefits The Board of Education has requested community comment regarding Policy GIG, ...(more)

Board Appoints Five Administrators, Takes Action on Policies

Board of Education Tentatively Approves Comprehensive Master Plan, Discusses Professional Growth System, and Takes Action on Various Policies The Montgomery County Board of Education met on ...(more)

Harvard Education Press Publishes New Book on MCPS Reform Effort

Harvard Education Press released a new book today that chronicles the 10-year reform effort in Montgomery County Public Schools. The book, Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery ...(more)

Class of 2009 Earns 71 National Merit Scholarship Awards

Twenty-Four Additional Students Win National Merit Scholarships, Bringing Total for the Class of 2009 to 71 Twenty-four students have been named in the second round of college-sponsored N ...(more)

Board of Education To Meet on Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Agenda 9:00 a.m. 1.0 Acknowledgment of a Quorum 1.1 Resolution for Closed Sessions (A) 10:00 a.m. 2.0 Pledge of Allegiance (A) 2.1 Approval of the Agenda (A) 2.2 In Appreciation of B ...(more)

MCPS Honored as Champion of Summer Learning

National Center for Summer Learning Presents Award to Superintendent Weast in Recognition of ELO–SAIL Summer Learning Program MCPS Expands Program Using $1.2 Million in Funding from American R ...(more)

Shriver ES Students Participate in Summer Reading Event at USDE

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Stress the Value of Summer Reading ROCKVILLE, MD—More than 50 students from Sargent Shriver Elem ...(more)

Durso, Hwang Sworn in as New Members of Board of Education

Michael Durso, who has just retired as principal of Springbrook High School, was sworn in this evening as a new member of the Montgomery County Board of Education, along with Timothy Hwang, a rising ...(more)