Rockville Mayor and Council to Tour Overcrowded Elementary Schools with MCPS Officials

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Rockville Mayor and Council to Tour Overcrowded Elementary Schools with MCPS Officials

ROCKVILLE, Md., October 25, 2010 - The Rockville Mayor and Council will tour four elementary schools within the Montgomery County Public Schools system in Rockville, starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Ritchie Park Elementary School. The Mayor and Council will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Carver Educational Services Building, located at 850 Hungerford Drive. The following list outlines the schedule of events for the day:

• 9-9:45 a.m., Ritchie Park Elementary School, 1514 Dunster Road
• 10-10:45 a.m., Beall Elementary School, 451 Beall Ave.
• 11-11:45 a.m., Twinbrook Elementary School, 5911 Ridgeway Ave.
• Noon to 12:45 p.m., College Gardens Elementary School, 1700 Yale Place

In addition to the Rockville Mayor and Council, Board of Education member Laura Berthiaume (Dist. 2) of Rockville; James Song, director of MCPS Facilities; Bruce Crispell, MCPS Chief of Long Range Planning; and Kathy Steinberg, MCPS Intergovernmental Relations, will attend the tour. The Mayor and Council are going on the tour for a first-hand look at the overcrowding issues in Rockville, and to talk with principals about the challenges of overcrowding in their schools and what they are doing to manage it.

The Mayor and Council plan to gather information that will help their efforts to lobby the Board of Education on school overcrowding in Rockville. The Rockville mayor and all four council members will be present at the tour; therefore, the tour is considered a public meeting and is subject to all provisions of the open meetings act.