(October 31, 2001)
The Montgomery County Board of Education will honor 10 individuals and organizations in its fifth annual awards program for distinguished service to public education in Montgomery County. The awards
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(October 30, 2001)
The following is the text of remarks by President George W. Bush today [Tuesday, October 30] during a visit to Thomas S. Wootton High School where he announced a new initiative involving military vete
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(October 29, 2001)
A significant shortfall projected in both state and county funding will require major delays in planned school modernizations and individual school construction projects, such as additions and element
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(October 26, 2001)
James Hubert Blake High School has been selected as a winner of the annual Siemens Award for Advanced Placement (AP).
Blake is one of 12 high schools throughout the nation to win the award this year,
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(October 19, 2001)
The Montgomery County Business Roundtable will kick off AmeriCorps’ newest program, Project CHANGE, at a press conference on October 23 at 1:00 p.m. at the Long Branch Community Center. Project CHANG
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(October 19, 2001)
A partial freeze has been implemented on certain expenditures as a precaution against the expected loss of significant tax revenue this year and reduced funding for next year’s operating budget for th
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(October 17, 2001)
A higher percentage of students last year completed at least Algebra 1 in middle school and more students enrolled in at least one Honors or Advanced Placement (AP) course in high school, as efforts t
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(October 17, 2001)
The Board of Education met yesterday [Tuesday, October 16] and, among other items, approved regulations for student use of portable communication devices, voted to amend the timeline for operation of
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(October 12, 2001)
Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 10:00 a. m.*
9:00 a.m.
Closed Session
10:00 a.m.
1.0 Roll Call
1.1 Approval of the Agenda (A)
1.2 Montgomery County Employees' Charity Campaign (A)
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(October 05, 2001)
The Voice of America produced a worldwide program on patriotism in public schools featuring the students and staff of College Gardens Elementary School in Rockville, including interviews and singing o
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(October 04, 2001)
Volunteers from the local business community are visiting ninth grade classrooms throughout the county this month to talk with students about the important connection between achievement in school and
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(October 03, 2001)
Fifteen seniors have been named semifinalists in the 38th annual National Achievement Scholarship Program for outstanding African American students.
They are among some 1,500 semifinalists-includin
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(October 02, 2001)
Ida Polcari, principal of Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, has been named Service-Learning Principal of the Year by the Maryland Student Service Alliance of the Maryland State Departme
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(October 02, 2001)
Eighth graders are doing well in the basic skills of writing, and seventh graders are doing even better in fundamental reading skills, but proficiency in elemental mathematics in seventh grade is lagg
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(October 01, 2001)
Elementary and middle schools soon will receive the next set of materials in a systemwide curriculum revision process: Curriculum, Assessment and Instructional (CAI) Blueprints in English/language art
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