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 engagement calendar and commented further…
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MCPS Responds on School Closures
By Adam Pagnucco. On Tuesday, this site ran a guest column by Angie Kronenberg, representing Save Our Silver Spring Schools, questioning MCPS’s process for considering elementary and middle school closings…
Guest column by Angie Kronenberg. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has launched a study that could lead to the consolidation and closure of elementary and middle schools across the county….
By Adam Pagnucco. After this year’s round of high school and middle school redistricting along with a new regional program framework, MCPS is proceeding to analyze potential closures of elementary…
By Adam Pagnucco. The raging fight over the future of Wootton High School has several dimensions: political, community-based, financial and even racial. One dimension is more technical than any of…
By Adam Pagnucco. Save Wootton, a stakeholder coalition formed to prevent the closure of Wootton High School, has announced that it has filed complaints with state and county inspectors general…
By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in February 2026, ranked by page views. 1. Taylor: “What’s the Worst That Could Happen? They Fire Me?”…
By Adam Pagnucco. School boundary discussions always turn into dynamite blast zones. It happened in 2020, when a proposed MCPS boundary study turned into a major school board election issue. …
By Adam Pagnucco. On Friday, I published a column titled Kagan Criticizes “Really Bad Estimates” from MCPS, which transcribed Senator Cheryl Kagan’s public statement alleging that MCPS’s proposal to relocate…
By Adam Pagnucco. So far, the fight over relocating Wootton High School has become a major issue in Rockville and potentially in upcoming Montgomery County elections. Now it’s spreading to…
