By Adam Pagnucco. District 6 County Council Member Natali Fani-Gonzalez has written her colleagues on the council’s Education and Culture Committee (Chair Will Jawando, Gabe Albornoz and Kristin Mink) with…
School Boundaries
What’s Your MCPS Region?
By Adam Pagnucco. This year, the two biggest stories in MCPS (along with the problem-plagued background check program) are the boundary studies and the academic programs analysis. The former are…
Top Stories: June 2025
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in June 2025, ranked by page views. 1. More Wild MCPS Boundary Maps 2. Parents Organize to Fight…
By Adam Pagnucco. Since April, MCPS has been gathering data on community feedback for its boundary study and program analysis proposals. But so far, the responses it has received are…
County PTA Pushes Back on MCPS NDAs
By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, I wrote about MCPS’s practice of requiring that participants in some of its stakeholder groups sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) establishing confidentiality over information discussed in…
Will There be Regions in MCPS?
By Adam Pagnucco. I have previously discussed MCPS’s ongoing academic programs analysis, a separate analysis from the school system’s two boundary studies which is intended to make recommendations on programs…
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…
The Ticking Clock for Crown High School
By Adam Pagnucco. MCPS’s boundary studies in the vicinities of the new Woodward High School in North Bethesda and the new Crown High School in Gaithersburg are stoking massive controversy…
Top Stories: May 2025
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in May 2025, ranked by page views. 1. MCPS’s Insane Boundary Maps 2. Kensington: Ground Zero for the…
By Adam Pagnucco. In my column on MCPS’s Crown HS vicinity boundary maps, I wrote this: Wayside Elementary School in Potomac currently feeds into Churchill HS, one of MCPS’s most…