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(October 01, 1999)
October meetings are scheduled at all five middle schools in the Northeast Consortium to help eighth grade students and their families decide which high school they'd like to attend for the 2000-2001 ...(more)
The County Council has responded favorably to a request by the Board of Education to approve new increased spending guidelines for school facilities.The Council approved FY 2001-2006 Capital Improveme ...(more)
(September 28, 1999)
The Board of Education has asked the County Council to address the burgeoning facility needs of the school system with an increase in the Spending Affordability Guidelines (SAG) for the Fiscal Year 20 ...(more)
(September 24, 1999)
In a move designed to allow the targeting of all school system resources on improving teaching and learning, the Board of Education last night [Thursday, September 23] unanimously approved five academ ...(more)
(September 23, 1999)
The Montgomery County Public Schools' School Energy Rebate Team (SERT) Program will recognize $340,000 in energy savings by local schools at the 1999 SERT Kick-off on September 23 from 9 a.m. to 11 a. ...(more)
The Metropolitan Police Department is reminding parents that the curfew law for young people under the age of 17 which is in force in the District of Columbia applies not only to District of Columbia ...(more)
Twenty-two Montgomery County schools have been named among the state's fastest improving schools as part of a $2.75 million statewide School Performance Recognition program, a key component added to M ...(more)
(September 21, 1999)
A significant percentage of students attending Montgomery College continue to need remediation in mathematics, reading, and English after graduating from the Montgomery County Public Schools, accordin ...(more)
(September 20, 1999)
The 1999-2000 school year is in full swing, and a record number of new teachers--1,127 of them--are in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) classrooms. Running counter to the national trend of teac ...(more)
(September 17, 1999)
One hundred seven 12th grade students have been named semifinalists in the year 2000 National Merit Scholarship competition. The local students represent 36 percent of the 296 semifinalists in Marylan ...(more)
(September 15, 1999)
The Board of Education met this week [Tuesday, September 14] and, among other items, discussed gains on the Reading Initiative for first and second grade students and reviewed a plan to develop county ...(more)
(August 31, 1999)
NOTE: The full report and superintendent's memorandum are available for viewing as a 568K Adobe Acrobat PDF file. See link below>Superintendent Jerry D. Weast has directed that every high school and a ...(more)
The following is a summary of current planning and intervention strategies to improve student performance on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), particularly among Hispanic and African American stud ...(more)
(August 26, 1999)
The Board of Education met this week [Tuesday, August 24] and, among other items, discussed student performance measures, the continuing disparity in student achievement by race and ethnicity, and the ...(more)
The new school year features more than a few new things - a new superintendent, four new schools, seventeen new principals, and a thousand new teachers. New ways of measuring student achievement, eval ...(more)