It’s just one element of the school district’s redistricting plan that would draw new boundaries in the state’s largest school district.
Throughout the meeting, parents held up signs and many wore tee shirts emblazoned with a large “W” featuring stars and stripes...
“Families purchased homes in Crown based on official plans guaranteeing a local high school. Changing course now undermines community trust,” Nora Walsh wrote in a letter to district officials.
District officials are expected to share Crown proposals with the community by late November, with opportunities for public feedback in December and January...
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is considering a plan to use the upcoming Crown High School in Gaithersburg, which is currently under construction, as a holding school rather than opening it in 2027 as scheduled, the district told the county school board Thursday.
“We would like to explore the idea of potentially making Crown a holding school for a few years while we continue to assess our enrollment projections,” Taylor said, noting that the district’s enrollment is declining. “[To] make sure that we are fully utilizing our buildings to their highest and best value, this makes a lot of sense. That being said, it can make a lot of sense and still be a terrible idea.”
If the district moves ahead with the plan, the change would impact the district’s ongoing boundary study that is expected to determine which students would attend the new high school.
The Montgomery County Board of Education approved changes to the project scope of the reopening of Woodward in Rockville and the construction of the new Crown High School in Gaithersburg, adding an additional phase to construct auditoriums for both projects. Officials did not say when they plan for the auditoriums to be completed...
Parents and students in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) communities that would likely feed into the new Charles C. Woodward and Crown high schools are concerned by a school board decision Tuesday to delay the construction of auditoriums at the schools until after they open.
The Montgomery County Board of Education approved changes to the project scope of the reopening of Woodward in Rockville and the construction of the new Crown High School in Gaithersburg, adding an additional phase to construct auditoriums for both projects. Officials did not say when they plan for the auditoriums to be completed...
...The community has also set aside land for Montgomery County Public Schools to use in the future for a new high school, but a MCPS official said there are currently no plans to build on the 32-acre property any time soon...http://gaithersburg.patch.com/articles/crown-construction-to-open-thursday-with-city-county-officials
