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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Wootton HS: Former High School Football Coach Charged with Sexual Offenses Against Two Players; Possibility of Additional Victims a Concern

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  Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Special Victims Investigations Division (SVID) have arrested and charged Chri...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Letter: Transparency in Resource and Staffing Allocations by Dustin Jeter, Social Studies Teacher at Springbrook H.S.

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...We are very fortunate that in the State of Maryland and especially here at the Montgomery County level, we can benefit from the Maryland ...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Happy National Coming Out Day!

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  It's National Coming Out Day, so let's celebrate. This is for all our students, children, parents, guardians, teachers, aunts, unc...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Four Bradley Hills Elementary School staff members contract COVID-19; building temporarily closes [School is also a day care/virtual learning pod location]

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The Bradley Hills Elementary School building will close for two weeks after four staff members tested positive for COVID-19, according to an...

Northwood HS Reports positive COVID-19 test for staff member.

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October 9, 2020 Dear MCPS Community: We are writing to share that a Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) food and nutrition services staf...

Maryland schools will have to report any coronavirus cases — but health officials don’t plan to publicize the data

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Maryland health officials are refusing to release a complete list of schools where cases of COVID-19 have emerged, even as public   school s...

R.I. buys 600,000 masks, thousands of thermometers and gowns to help schools reopen

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  PROVIDENCE The state has acquired thousands of masks, thermometers and medical gloves to help schools struggling to stockpile their own pe...

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum

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C ovid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel p...

Firings of therapists who alleged wrongdoing left abused children without treatment: A nonprofit group that is paid nearly $1 million a year by Montgomery County to provide counseling and medical care to abused children has been accused of inflating the number of patients it serves and failing to protect their personal information.

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A nonprofit group that is paid nearly $1 million a year by Montgomery County to provide counseling and medical care to abused children has b...
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MCPS slowly resumes SAT and ACT administration - Masks were Required

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... Aside from normal testing requirements, the College Board issued a series of additional coronavirus-related protocols that must be follo...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Maryland High School Teacher Had ‘Explicit Images' on Screen in Class: Principal

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 https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/maryland-high-school-teacher-had-explicit-images-on-screen-in-class-principal/2437850/?_osource=db...
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Parents in Montgomery County continue to push for answers about when kids will go back to school

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COVID-19 OUTBREAK LINKED TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SOCCER CLUB

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  Montgomery County is investigating a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a youth soccer club that has now “spilled over” into a high school team, ...

Notre Dame’s President Faces an Angry Campus After Getting the Coronavirus

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Students and faculty are furious that the Rev. John I. Jenkins failed to wear a mask at a White House ceremony and then later tested positiv...

MCPS superintendent says it will take ‘tremendous amount of planning’ to open schools

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There is still no date set for students in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools to return to their classrooms, but the Board of Educa...

Fairfax County teachers faced with decision: take unpaid leave, resign or return to school

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 https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-teachers-decision-unpaid-leave-resign-return-school

"Meeting Current School Health Challenges and Beyond: New Tools to Assess and Address IAQ Health and Safety"

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Lisa C. Ng @lisacng I'm giving another talk at @EPA with Tracy Washington Enger and @ESEitland "Meeting Current School Health Cha...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

NYT: Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings

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Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public ...

Yale School of Public Health: Ventilation Key to Reducing Risk

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  Ways to improve school ventilation increase the amount of outdoor air introduced into the building improve the filtration of recirculated ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Sup. Ct. Sotomayor to Montgomery County Prosecutor: “Prosecutors fall short of this task, and therefore do a grave disservice to the people in whose name they litigate, when they permit themselves to enjoy unfair trial advantages at defendants’ expense. Here, regardless of the reason for their acquisition of Kaur’s privileged information … the prosecutors should have recused themselves from participating in Kaur’s second trial as a matter of professional conscience.”

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... Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a written statement, said she agreed with the high court’s decision not to hear Raminder Kaur’s appeal. Howe...
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