Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

...Thousands of Montgomery County Public Schools workers have fallen through cracks in background check systems, according to a new report, ...

About 12,000 employees have outdated criminal history checks, and 4,900 employees haven’t been screened for cases involving child abuse and ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) —  A new report from the Montgomery County Inspector General just revealed that almost 5,000 of the district...

  Prosecutor alleges Md. parents watched teen daughter ‘slowly die’ The 911 call was bad enough: an unresponsive teenager inside a Maryland ...

To the Whitman Crew Community:  We are heartbroken and disgusted by the information which came to light last week regarding Kirk Shipley’s a...

#BREAKING : Lawyer for accused Damascus High School rapist says school itself failed. “Why was the locker room left unattended day after d...

BREAKING: J.C. Abedi, the so-called "ringleader" in the Damascus High School sex assaults, is headed back to juvenile court. MoC...

Dear anonymous parent from Barnsley and other similarly situated parents: Thank you for your letter concerning the situation you have enco...

Court System: Circuit Court for Montgomery County - Criminal System Case Number: 124485C                                       ...

Instead of calling Child Protective Services, MCPS has set up an internal database for instances that "just don't feel right."...

A former Montgomery County music teacher charged with sexually abusing 15 students was indicted Thursday on 39 counts tied to the alleged a...

On August 15, 2013, Superintendent Joshua Starr commented on the arrest of long time MCPS music teacher Lawrence Joynes.  He made these comm...

Clearly, our Montgomery County Superintendent of Schools, Joshua Starr, follows the leadership model of extraordinary contradictions.  His...

On June 12, 2013 , Loiederman Middle School science teacher Benjamin Cano was arrested.   The Gazette reported the story: A science teach...

Does MCPS need to evaluate its policy on reporting and investigating allegations of child abuse? Simple answer is NO.   Maryland laws sp...

PATCH article at this link:   Daniel Picca was terminated after 17 years with Montgomery County Public Schools, with officials citing numero...

Note that while The Washington Post has written a lengthy Editorial (below) about the recent Maryland State Board of Education (BOE) Opin...

Why? Because MCPS does background checks on new employees, and then, never again .  Once someone is hired by MCPS, any subsequent findin...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Gazette:   Bates remained in substitute bus aide pool after he was fired from MCPS by Meghan Tierney | Staff Wr...