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Thursday, October 2, 2025

‘I’m praying they don’t come back’: ICE sighting panics Silver Spring elementary school community

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After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were spotted next to New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, panic spread. It was c...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

“Respectfully, it looks really elitist to have the Board of Ed move out, to have all of a lot of the leaders … of MCPS, move out of Carver and to leave everyone else there knowing that that building is unhealthy,” Morrison said.

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... Many schools have also faced concerns about building conditions, including  A. Mario Loiederman Middle  in Silver Spring, which advocate...
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Maryland taxpayers paid $219 million in 2024 to educate students who could not be found

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Baltimore (WBFF) —  A Project Baltimore investigation has uncovered that Maryland taxpayers, in 2024, gave public schools hundreds of millio...
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MSDE: Summary of Attendance by County - MCPS Number of Students "Whereabouts Unknown" = 1,888

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See page 13 of this Maryland State Department of Education Report for the 2023-2024 school year.  https://marylandpublicschools.org/about/Do...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

"Soul Murder" Documentary

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5 key questions about the MCPS plan to change school boundaries and programs

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Montgomery County leaders say change is needed to promote equity. But some families worry. Montgomery County high schools could soon have ne...

Youth Social Justice Group Condemns Police Action During Fights at High School Football Game

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Young People for Progress   members condemned the actions of the Montgomery County Police to break up student fights outside a Sept. 19 foot...
Monday, September 29, 2025

2 Montgomery County firefighters charged for flooding baseball field

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Two Montgomery County firefighters have been charged with malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct after one of them admitte...
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Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm - Oct 15 Deadline for public to comment

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 From The Hechinger Report. Full story is here . The Public has until October 15th to weigh in. In his first two months in office, President...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Largest town in US held in contempt for producing just 17 of nearly 3K court-requested emails over school-bus cameras

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 From The New York Post , story by reporter Brandon Cruz. Full story is here . The largest town in America has been held in contempt by a N...
Friday, September 26, 2025

State may have put children in homes where registered sex offenders lived

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The state Social Services Administration may have approved guardianship homes for children who are in state care where registered sex offend...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

BB gun recovered from student at Silver Spring’s Odessa Shannon Middle School

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From Bethesda Today,  story by reporter Ashlyn Campbell. Full story here . School declared 'hold' status Wednesday, marking latest o...

See the Vendors that have Private Access to Board of Education Members through the Maryland BOE Club

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How many of these vendors have contracts with the Montgomery County Board of Education? How many of those contracts were no bid deals?  Remi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Alleged Shoplifter Found With Loaded Ghost Gun In Silver Spring

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A juvenile accused of shoplifting in Downtown Silver Spring had a loaded AR pistol in his backpack, according to Montgomery County Police’s ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

A police officer used a pepper ball launcher to deploy several de-escalation “air pops” — loud sounds that do not release ammunition or pepper — while ordering students to disperse.

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Police Detail Response to Fights After Blake High Football Game The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has released additional infor...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Former Einstein High student allegedly steals student’s belongings, insinuates having gun

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Albert Einstein High School in Kensington was placed in a “hold” and then “secure” status Thursday afternoon after a former student allegedl...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

MCPS vape sensors bombarded administrators with false alarms

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 ... “To be blunt, the sensors are going off too often for them to be useful. Perhaps they are too sensitive? Today, a SINGLE normal school ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Help stop ZTA 25-11 and unlimited cell towers! [Montgomery County Loves to Put Cell Towers on School Playgrounds.]

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SEE ACTION ITEM BELOW VIDEO.   In 2022, the Parents' Coalition stopped Montgomery County from placing a cell tower in the home team ble...
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Follow-Up Annual Meeting for Maryland Public Information Act Compliance Board

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The Maryland Public Information Act (PIA) Compliance Board   will hold a  follow-up to its   annual meeting  by videoconference on  Friday, ...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Potomac Lice Lady Posts MCPS Schools with Current Cases of Lice

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  Follow the Potomac Lice Lady for a current listing of known MCPS schools with lice: https://www.instagram.com/potomaclicelady/