Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

If I ran the Montgomery County school system ... I would not jump to have another "interim superintendent" appointed for the next ...

The rise and fall of Dr. Andrew Houlihan as superintendent designate of Montgomery County Public Schools serves as a reminder that the searc...

If you think that MCPS and its various computer software and hardware vendors may not value your MoCo student's privacy interest, fear n...

Finally. Parents are saying "no" to Pearson tests.  Instead of having their children participate in field testing of Pearson exa...

A Potomac community is taking the first step toward suing over Montgomery County's plans to turn an organic farm into soccer fields. ...

Andrew Cuomo has it right.   NY, like many other jurisdictions in the nation, is facing a budget shortfall.  The Governor of NY has taken...

Here is an interesting article about one school district's approach to a budget crunch. Virtual learning. Use those high tech toys, ...

This past Tuesday, December 7, 2010, MoCo's Board of Education hired  Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA)  to assist in its sear...

School fees are alive and well in Montgomery County Public Schools. Look no further than Richard Montgomery, one of the gems in the school...

Grant application reveals that Superintendent Weast collaborated with Pearson on curriculum in 2009 Analysis of the MCPS Investing in Inno...

The ACLU is suing numerous California school districts over fees charged to students in public schools. Maryland's Constitution guara...

Welcome back to school. Here is the much anticipated third annual list of high school curricular fees for Montgomery County Public School...

Here is a link to the Project on Government Oversight 's explanation of FOIA . http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2010/07/the-freedom-of...

Did the Board of Education check out the reputation of its new curriculum partner Pearson before agreeing to the high profile novel curricul...

Here is a new concern for those college students leaving the confines of MoCo for higher education.  Just when we thought we'd seen the...

T hink your vote doesn’t matter? Think your Board of Education eating up 57% of our budget to spend on high tech gadgets and Central Office ...

Did you know that MCPS and Pearson Publishing established a relationship BEFORE the Board of Education meeting on June 8, 2010? Oops - yo...

Remember last Wednesday, May 26, 2010, when the temperature reached over 90 degrees ? Its a day that many Frost Middle School students wi...

Financially, that is.   More financial woes reported at yet another Montgomery County Public School. This time its Richard Montgomery, a...

From WTOP news, Kate Ryan reporting: ROCKVILLE, Md. - Will there be an education armageddon in Montgomery County if schools have to accep...