Guest column by Becca Silverman in response to “Which Schools Will Close? Part Two: Rockville.” While Which Schools Will Close? Part Two: Rockville raises important…
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MCPS Claims Major Gains
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS is claiming major gains in school performance under the state’s star rating system, which rates schools from 1 to 5 stars…
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By Adam Pagnucco. The county council’s pending tax credit bill for MCPS employees has a price tag currently projected at $25-30 million a year. That’s…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I laid out a framework for determining which elementary schools might be targeted for closure. That framework included projected…
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Which Schools Will Close? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. It’s the question being asked throughout MCPS’s vast stakeholder community: which schools will close? That question is top of mind because of…
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Is MCPS Losing Students to Private Schools?
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS blames a lot of its continuing enrollment drop on declining births in MoCo. However, that’s only part of what is impacting…
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MCPS’s Huge Health Care Hole
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last year, I published a startling fact: MCPS was running a $58 million deficit in its fund that pays for employee and…
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Six Months to School Closure Decision
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By Adam Pagnucco. At today’s school board meeting, the board will discuss MCPS’s process for deciding upcoming closures of elementary and/or middle schools. The staff’s…
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Teacher-Funded Super PAC Attacks Diaz
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I printed a column asking if school board candidate Brenda Diaz was on track to winning her race for an…
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By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS is getting ready to commence a round of elementary and middle school closings and consolidations. The district has previously announced an…
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