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…
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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…
By Adam Pagnucco. Just when you thought this issue could not get any hotter, a parents group is preparing to file a federal civil rights complaint against MCPS over its…
By Adam Pagnucco. The fight over a potential relocation of Wootton High School to the Crown site in Gaithersburg is currently one of the biggest battles in MCPS’s pending boundary…
By Adam Pagnucco. In the aftermath of Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s recommendation to relocate Wootton High School to Gaithersburg’s Crown site and to use the current Wootton building as a holding…
By Adam Pagnucco. Taking a position on one of the biggest MCPS battles in the county right now, Superintendent Thomas Taylor has recommended moving Wootton High School out of its…
