Program Cut in Half Yields Award Winner

If a student in the Visual Art Center program at Einstein High School wins an award next year they will only be able to credit one teacher. 


One of these teachers won't be back in the program next year and only half as many students will be able to experience this unique learning environment.


While half of the teachers in this program are being cut for next school year, Superintendent Weast has promoted 7 administrators this month.  And, as the Board of Education responds when an administrator is hired or given a raise; "Clap, clap, clap."

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (AHCMC) announces that AARON KUHN, a senior at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, MD, is the 2010 recipient of the Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award. Mr. Kuhn will receive a $3,000 cash award on Tuesday, June 8 at 5:00 PM at the reception for his solo exhibition at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College Takoma Park-Silver Spring Campus.

Aaron Kuhn, who works primarily with paint, credits Einstein’s visual arts magnet teachers, Mr. Michael Piechocinski and Ms. Jane Walsh, for helping him to think conceptually about his work and causing him to act as his own critic...