By Adam Pagnucco. One of the biggest fights in MCPS’s ongoing school boundary review concerns Option H, which would relocate Wootton High School to the new Crown High School campus…
School Boundaries
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…
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…
Guest column by Rebecca Aicher. I am a Silver Spring resident and parent of one child at Sligo Creek Elementary School and one at Silver Spring International Middle School. Since…
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…
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…
