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Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The largest public high school in the state of Maryland is currently taking shape at an estimated cost of more than $150 million. The four-story building will cover approximately 440,000 sq. ft. and will serve as the new Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Montgomery County.
The school is expected to be ready for the start of the 2020/2021 school year and will have the capacity for more than 3,000 students. Ground was broken in September 2017 and completion is set for August 2020. The following year, the current facility will be demolished and the grounds will be completed.
Construction of the new building is taking place on the school's old athletic fields. Upon completion of the new building, the new athletic fields will be built where the current building stands today...
...The capacity of the school will increase from 1,374 students to 2,423 students with a core capacity for 2,400 students. The increased capacity to Seneca Valley High School provides the opportunity to address projected overutilization of nearby Clarksburg and Northwest high schools through student reassignments in the future...
...Onsite staging areas will be included for 30 buses, 439 parking spaces, and onsite student drop-off queuing for 30 cars...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
@ABC7News FLOODING AT WHEATON HIGH SCHOOL: A sprinkler burst for what is believed to be weather-related reasons Tuesday morning in a stairwell at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, forcing the building to be evacuated.
FLOODING AT WHEATON HIGH SCHOOL: A sprinkler burst for what is believed to be weather-related reasons Tuesday morning in a stairwell at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, forcing the building to be evacuated.— ABC 7 News - WJLA (@ABC7News) January 22, 2019
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https://wjla.com/news/local/wheaton-high-school-sprinkler-head-burst?fbclid=IwAR12qZ7uBJrgRJg6Hji1RymCTNN1FyW8Op7BIUPaO0uQXtuokEhdzF16gb8
Monday, November 19, 2018
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
“We’ve been carrying a lot of debt for a long time,” Rice said, adding the County needs to go on a diet on how much it borrows
He said Wheaton, Damascus, Magruder and Wootton are in similar situations because MCPS’ Superintendent removed them from the MCPS CIP.
“Capacity is a lousy excuse for not taking care of business,” Kloblukowski said, at which point many of the 35 audience members broke into applause.
Rice said Poolesville High School, which MCPS Superintendent Smith temporarily shelved from construction (according to his proposed six-year capital improvements plan for MCPS) will not likely earn an expensive capital construction project soon due to how the school board and county select capital projects to fund. The issue is MCPS long-range planning department did not project overcrowding issues (more than 120 percent of the number of students it can hold) for the school in the next six years.
Rice said Poolesville High School – already one of the older buildings in the county – is at a disadvantage because MCPS does not project significant enrollment increases there.
“Normally a lot of our schools that are aged – are also aged and have a capacity issue,” Rice said.
Kloblukowski said the superintendent seemed to be unfairly favoring overcrowded schools to schools that are old...
http://www.thesentinel.com/mont/news/local/item/6071-rice-says-debt-school-capacity-problems-and-purple-line-influencing-county-cip
Friday, October 20, 2017
Work group looks to streamline Md. school construction
ANNAPOLIS — Members of a Maryland legislative task force want to streamline the school construction process by removing the oversight of one government agency.
A work group that is part of the 21st Century Schools Facilities Commission voted to recommend to the full commission eliminating a requirement that school systems submit construction or renovation plans for review by the Department of General Services. Supporters of the recommendation say that such efforts are often either redundant or increase costs by slowing down approvals needed to start projects that must be completed before schools re-open...
Monday, July 10, 2017
MCPS COO Zuckerman Surprises Parents, Skips Promised Design Meeting
MCPS Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Zuckerman, has apparently communicated to parents that there would be an additional meeting to review the plans.
The last design meeting was held January 24, 2017. At that point, parents report that no modifications had been made to the plans presented at the December 19, 2016, meeting nor the January 18, 2017, meeting. At these previous meetings, parents made multiple suggestions as to how each of the proposed designs could be improved.
There was apparently no final presentation to the Potomac Elementary School PTA and community so that everyone would know what would be put before the BOE for approval.
Tomorrow's presentation could well be a surprise for parents and neighbors.
This is not the first time we have seen MCPS COO Andrew Zuckerman throw parents under the bus. Remember when he ditched the entire Child Abuse and Neglect Work Group to write his own "report" with another administrator on MCPS' handling of the sexual abuse of students by staff?
Why do MCPS administrators front that they are working with parents, then stop communicating with them, and then write their own reports, thus leaving out actual parent and community input?
The bigger question is, why do our elected Board of Education members fall for this over and over again?
Friday, June 2, 2017
Almanac: Potomac Elementary School parents vote to oppose move to Radnor school during construction.
Members of the Potomac Elementary School PTA voted Monday night, May 15, to oppose the choice of Montgomery County Public Schools to transfer Potomac students to the Radnor holding center during construction of the new PES.
#The change is scheduled to take place at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year and is expected to last until January of 2021.
#Ahead of the formal vote, several PES parents testified at the May 9 meeting of the Montgomery County Board of Education against the Radnor option. They also asked the board to review errors in communication between the MCPS and members of the school’s community.
#“… Having been involved in the discussions pertaining to the PES modernization project, we are disheartened and disappointed with the lack of transparency and the misleading information that is being used to make fundamental decisions about the project,” Zahra Raney, mother of two PES students, said before the board.
Raney’s testimony continued with examples of what she considered questionable including distance and drive time from the current school location to Radnor, the option of keeping the current school operating during construction, cost estimates and design...
Monday, August 10, 2015
[MCPS] ranking system is based on outdated information, marred by factual errors and favors total reconstruction over renovation, according to the July report by...County Council.
The ranking system is based on outdated information, marred by factual errors and favors total reconstruction over renovation, according to the July report by the county’s Office of Legislative Oversight, the research arm of the County Council.
Until the report’s release, the school system had intended to keep its list unchanged until at least 2031. But the oversight office found that other large school systems, including Baltimore County, Fairfax County and Dallas, regularly revisit and adjust their construction priorities.
“It’s definitely disturbing,” said council member Tom Hucker (D-Silver Spring). “This doesn’t inspire public confidence.”...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/report-prompts-montgomery-to-rethink-its-school-modernization-list/2015/08/09/9af05240-3ac5-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html?hpid=z3
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Investigation Finds Flaws in Order of Montgomery County Public Schools Renovations
Montgomery County Public Schools will
rearrange the order in which its schools are renovated or expanded
after an internal investigation showed the district may have botched how
it drew up the old list.
Some schools might be rebuilt or gutted years earlier than expected; some years later...
Council Investigation Identified Math Errors in the MCPS School Building FACT Score Calculations
...The calculation of FACT scores included multiple errors; correction of these flaws would alter the results of the 2011 FACT assessments. OLO determined that the FACT scoring: (a) double counted points for the Administrative parameter; (b) used incorrect square footage data in the calculation of maintenance and utility consumption rates for some schools; (c) used Piney Branch Elementary School as the scoring benchmark in the Utility and Energy Efficiency parameter without accounting for the presence of a swimming pool at the school; (d) included a formulaic error in the calculation of relative water consumption rates; and (e) failed to adjust for a clear data outlier in the calculation of relative school maintenance costs. While OLO identified the above five errors, OLO did not conduct a complete audit of all FACT scoring calculations...
Monday, November 17, 2014
4 More No Bid Crumb Rubber Plastic Football Fields on Order for MCPS. That's $5.2 Million Diverted from School Maintenance Needs
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| One ton of crumb rubber. Each field gets 120 tons of crumb rubber. |
They love them so much they buy them without Board of Education votes, without competitive bids and without RFPs. Why shop when you can have a vendor that you just love? (Oh, and a vendor whose lobbyist was Roger Berliner's former law firm.)
On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 1 PM a BOE committee will discuss the artificial turf football fields that are already on order. It turns out that Wheaton, Seneca Valley, BCC and Poolesville High Schools are already getting MCPS paid for artificial turf football fields. Churchill? Sorry, your field is in litigation and you don't get a MCPS paid for field anyway.
How did the BOE decide which high schools get a taxpayer paid for no bid, crumb rubber field and which one's have to find a "partner" and do their own fundraising?
When did the BOE vote to automatically include a no bid, plastic grass field at every high school modernization?
When did the BOE decide that no bid, crumb rubber plastic grass football fields were more important than routine school maintenance?
Any schools with crumbling ceilings, leaky roofs, dangerous hallways, inaccessible buildings, deteriorating classroom trailers, broken lockers, unusable classrooms, mold, or unsecured walkways? Sorry, those repairs can just wait. MCPS needs $5.2 million for plastic grass filled with ground up, used truck tires that only lasts a few years and then has to be replaced.
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MCPS no bid, crumb rubber, plastic grass football field projects already in planning, design, and construction process.
Wheaton/Edison HS (FY 2018 Completion)
Seneca Valley HS (Completion 2020)
Bethesda Chevy Chase HS
Poolesville HS (FY 2017 planning, FY 2023 Completion)
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