Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Chandler Patton Miranda, a Brooklyn mom, pulled her son from his neighborhood elementary school this year. The last straw: The school kept i...

This brief summarizes a CHOICES Learning Collaborative Partnership model examining a strategy to integrate movement breaks into school class...

 This happens in Montgomery County, and has for years, despite complaints. Story by reporter Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report, via NBC. Fu...

Virginia’s largest school system is expected to approve a daily recess requirement for middle school students that would go into effect next...

 https://www.fox5dc.com/news/marylands-largest-school-system-approves-an-unannounced-pandemic-related-calendar-change

Students spend a lot of time on academics and standardized tests, especially in the early school years. Few states require recess. B...

Full Title: "When Education Goes Wrong: Taking Creativity and Play Out of Learning" Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, professor emerita o...

It is now 2015, and we know that when MCPS found high radon levels in classrooms back around 2013 they did nothing. What was the point of ...

From The Examiner , courtesy of reporter Kate Jacobson: Montgomery County 's Health Commission is recommending that the county track...

In 2011, the Parents' Coalition exposed that MCPS had deceived the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a grant application .  MCPS wa...

Lisa Gartner   Fairfax County Public Schools is repaying $1 million to the federal government after forging signatures on an application...

Superintendent Joshua Starr confirming that MCPS does not have a recess policy, and thus when MCPS staff filled out the application for a $6...

MCPS just released a new memo, dated November 30, 2011, regarding children's participation in recess. Parents' Coalition first broke...

But it was just a little lie. And MCPS was awarded $66,000 from the USDA for telling it. So who cares?   On January 27, 2011, MCPS submi...

Target:  Montgomery County, MD, Board of Education and Superintendent Joshua Starr Sponsored by:   MCPS Parent Supporting Outdoor Recess ...

...The well-appointed playground at Darnestown Elementary School is empty because the kids have gone home for the day. But some parents he...

How cold is too cold for recess? - wtop.com

Many Montgomery County, MD., public schools keep elementary school children indoors when the temperature hits 32 degrees or snow is on the ...

School Scene - Seven Resolutions for the New Decade by Sue Katz Miller The end of a decade provides a crucial opportunity to “stop and ...

The Parents' Coalition received a disturbing anonymous comment. You can read the comment here .  Is this true? Is recess taken away as p...