By Adam Pagnucco. Earlier this month, I published a column on security issues at John F. Kennedy High School. In the last two years, the school was the subject of…
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Kennedy PTSA President Responds to MCPS
By Adam Pagnucco. After I published an article about MCPS’s Safety and Security Assessment at John F. Kennedy HS, Ricky Ribeiro – the PTSA’s president – contacted me with his…
Is This High School Safe?
By Adam Pagnucco. Few MCPS schools have been in the news for unfortunate reasons more than John F. Kennedy High School. Just in the last two years, the school has…
By Adam Pagnucco. New statistics assembled by county council staff show slight recent drops in violent crime and property crime and a much larger drop in crimes against society. However,…
By Adam Pagnucco. I have written before about Carolyn Chen, who once worked for the council’s central staff and left after an Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation discovered misconduct. …
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s failed electric bus contract, the subject of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report detailing its “wasteful spending,” is more than just a government procurement gone…
By Adam Pagnucco. A new poll by Maryland pollster Gonzales Research has found that Maryland voters overwhelmingly support requiring local police departments to turn over illegal immigrants convicted of violent…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I reported on a joint letter by the principals of Odessa Shannon Middle School, Kennedy High School and Wheaton High School on a “gun-related incident”…
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, I reported that the principals of three MCPS schools – Odessa Shannon MS, Kennedy HS and Wheaton HS – had sent a notice to parents of…
By Adam Pagnucco. Yesterday, the principals of three MCPS schools in Wheaton and Glenmont sent a joint letter to parents stating: Today, we, the three principals of John F. Kennedy…