Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

The Parents' Coalition has been forwarded the following note from a MCPS high school: It has come to the attention of the PTSA that th...

San Diego News Network:   Exposing the hidden costs of a free public education (Article cites curricular fee issue in Montgomery County Pub...

There was an interesting post on this blog the other day that cited a New York newspaper article about how much parents were paying to send...

Our 'world class' school system with its $2.1 BILLION budget has teachers begging for money for school items on DonorsChoose.org (...

The following is an OP-Ed piece from the Baltimore Sun. I will note that one of the controversies surrounding Montgomery County Public ...

You might remember my article from about five weeks ago, where I described how I stumbled upon a way to get illegal curricular fees removed...

Schools to eliminate activity fees Parents had complained of wildly varying charges Columbia Flyer By Jennifer Broadwater Posted 3/12/09 Ho...

On March 10, 2009, the MCPS Board of Education voted to turn the Walter Johnson High School field over to a private organization. In the de...

MCPS policies and practices don't always agree with Maryland state laws, but the law is authoritative when there is a conflict. So, when...

In a February 3, 2009, memorandum to the MCPS Board of Education, Superintendent Weast states that , "The cost of eliminating all fees ...

This month the Montgomery County Council of PTAs (MCCPTA) will be taking up a resolution regarding Curricular Fees charged to families in Mo...

As first reported here , the Montgomery County Board of Education has been found to be in violation of the Maryland Open Meetings Act. At th...

These words come from the Maryland Attorney General's office in response to questions about hundreds of course fees charged students who...

Today's Washington Post include Letters to the Editor on " What Really Motivates Parent Activists ".