By Adam Pagnucco. The debate over the fate of Wootton High School is one of the hottest discussions in the county right now. MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor has floated the…
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Guest column by Gaithersburg City Council Member Yamil Hernández. Editor’s note: Council Member Hernández has written this column in response to a letter opposing the potential relocation of Wootton High…
By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor floated the idea of relocating Wootton High School from its current decrepit building to a new building at the Crown High School…
By Adam Pagnucco. In his capital budget briefing of the school board on Tuesday, Superintendent Thomas Taylor revealed that he wants to see a public-private partnership (P3) redevelop MCPS’s headquarters…
A Better Plan for MCPS’s Headquarters
By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, I wrote about MCPS’s proposed $400+ million central office campus. The project, which uses land now occupied by the old Carver central office and the…
By Adam Pagnucco. The Montgomery County Renters Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit financed in part by county government, has sent out an email blasting the Rockville City Council for refusing to…
Rockville Rejects Rent Control Again
By Adam Pagnucco. In a 5-2 vote last night, the Rockville City Council decided not to pursue rent control. Mayor Monique Ashton and Council Members Kate Fulton, Barry Jackson, Marissa…
By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Will Jawando, who is arguably MoCo’s foremost champion of rent control and is running for county executive, is pressuring the City of Rockville to adopt…
Parents Fight to Protect K-12 IB Program
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s boundary studies are now the target of growing revolts around the county. The latest outbreak comes from Rockville, where parents benefiting from a rare K-12 program…
Top Stories: July 2024
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in July 2024, ranked by page views. 1. Does this Assistant Principal Deserve Another Chance? 2. Rockville City…
