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(December 11, 2000)
Montgomery County's Longview Special Education Center in Gaithersburg and Lake Seneca Elementary School in Germantown are receiving $175,000 in challenge grants to develop playgrounds through the Mary ...(more)
Eleven local teachers are among 42 in Maryland who have earned certification this year from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). This brings the total of nationally certifi ...(more)
(December 07, 2000)
Further class size reductions, expanded full-day kindergarten, and enhanced professional staff development, as well as improved reading, writing, and math, are proposed as the centerpieces of the acad ...(more)
(December 05, 2000)
Dr. Jerry D. Weast, superintendent of schools, will present new budget proposals on Thursday, December 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Montgomery Blair High School. All teachers and staff, parents, and c ...(more)
(December 04, 2000)
The overall gain in eighth grade student performance on the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) - the largest gain among the three grade levels tested - was fueled by increases amon ...(more)
(November 30, 2000)
The swearing-in ceremony for the Board of Education -- featuring Kermit Burnett who was reelected to the Board and Sharon Cox and Walter Lange both of whom were newly elected to the Board -- will be h ...(more)
(November 29, 2000)
Students of the Montgomery County Public Schools continue to make progress on statewide assessments, achieving the highest ever local results on the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSP ...(more)
(November 21, 2000)
Superintendent Jerry D. Weast will be joined by state and local officials at a press conference to present Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) results for Montgomery County Public S ...(more)
(November 17, 2000)
Head Start classes at Maryvale Elementary School will host a parent involvement pledge ceremony on Tuesday, November 21, at 10:00 a.m. Maryvale Elementary School is located at 1000 First Street in Ro ...(more)
A Northeast Consortium Preferred Choice information meeting for Grade 8 students who are currently enrolled in private schools and reside in the Northeast Consortium attendance area will be held on Tu ...(more)
Two Montgomery Blair High School teachers have won state-level educator awards for their excellence in teaching social studies and health education.Jim Mogge, a social studies teacher at Montgomery Bl ...(more)
(November 16, 2000)
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is exploring the possibility of helping to meet a growing need for science and math teachers by em ...(more)
(November 15, 2000)
The Board of Education has approved the school calendar for 2001-2002, including 184 instructional days and a contingency plan for identifying days that will be used to make up lost instructional time ...(more)
The Board of Education met yesterday [Tuesday, November 14] and, among other items, approved the school calendar for 2001-02 and an administrative appointment. The Board also discussed secondary curr ...(more)
(November 14, 2000)
A significant change in the use of Criterion-Referenced Tests (CRTs) in reading and mathematics will be made this spring to eliminate redundancy with state assessment tests and reduce the amount of ti ...(more)