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Monday, February 3, 2020

Many MCPS public schools have ADA compliance issues

...Numerous requests by The Sentinel to the school administration by both email and phone concerning the ADA report were not answered.
While no schools earned a red mark for their exteriors, 16 had egregious issues to merit a red mark concerning interior problems.
Only 7 of the 198 schools that were reviewed received a green rating for both their interior and exterior.
But even those seven were cited with problems. For instance, Briggs Chaney Middle School in Silver Spring received a green rating but has 54 items that need to be addressed.
The inside of Thomas Wootton High School in Rockville was rated green and its exterior yellow. The report lists 380 ADA problems there.
Wootton junior Catherine Contreras is well aware of many of those problems. She has emailed or spoken with county council members and school officials urging them to do something...

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