Saturday, April 20, 2013
A rundown of what MCPS is serving to students this week.
What's for lunch? This week's menu for Montgomery County Public Schools' elementary school cafeterias is listed below. Montgomery County Public Schools celebrates P.A.C.K. (Pack Assorted Colors for Kids) Week in elementary schools this week. "This program was created by Welch’s and Produce for Better Health Foundation in order to encourage children to eat a variety of colors of fruits and vegetables at school and at home. ... During this week, the cafeteria will be offering ... colorful fruits and vegetables with lunch or as an a la carte option," according to the menu. See the menu below for the additional options for elementary school students each day. Visit the full menu for calorie information. The menu for Head Start and pre-…
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Learn when each Montgomery County public high school will hold its graduation ceremony.
Montgomery County Public Schools on Thursday tweeted a link to a schedule of high school graduations this spring. All ceremonies at DAR Costitution Hall in Washington, D.C. will be streamed online, the school system's website said. The graduations season begins with a ceremony for the school system's Alternative Programs on May 24 and wraps up with June 12 with ceremonies for Watkins Mill High School, the Longview School and the Gateway to College program. Click here to read the full schedule on the MCPS website.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Unseasonably warm temperatures lead to questions about school air conditioning.
On Wednesday, several Magruder High School students were overcome by the heat. So, it's no wonder MCPS has been getting questions about the process of changing over from heat to air conditioning in the schools. MCPS posted on its website an explantion of the conversion process.
Learn when each Montgomery County public high school will hold its graduation ceremony.
Montgomery County Public Schools on Thursday tweeted a link to a schedule of high school graduations this spring. All ceremonies taking place at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, will be streamed online, the school system's website stated. The graduation season begins with a ceremony for the school system's alternative programs on May 24 and wraps up on June 12 with ceremonies for Watkins Mill High School, the Longview School and the Gateway to College program. Click here to read the full schedule on the MCPS website.
Friday, April 12, 2013
A rundown of what MCPS is serving to students this week.
What's for lunch? This week's menu for Montgomery County Public Schools' elementary school cafeterias is listed below. Visit the full menu for the calorie information. The menu for Head Start and pre-kindergarten students varies slightly from the elementary school menu. Visit the MCPS website for middle school lunch, high school lunch and middle and high school breakfast offerings.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
School modernizations and additions have been recommended for schools across Montgomery County.
Montgomery County's public schools will see many improvements over the next decade. Potomac Elementary School, for example, has been programmed for modernization, but may be entirely rebuilt on the Brickyard Road property formerly operated as an organic farm, Potomac Patch reported. Bethesda Now reported that the county's recent surge of enrollment is not due to new developments but to more kids being sent to public schools than to private schools since the start of the recession in 2008, to state-required full-day kindergarten since 2006, and to reduced job mobility (leading to fewer families moving out of the county), Bruce Crispell, director of planning at Montgomery County Public Schools, said at a Western Montgomery County Citizens …
Friday, April 5, 2013
A rundown of what MCPS is serving to students this week.
What's for lunch? This week's menu for Montgomery County Public Schools' elementary school cafeterias is listed below. Visit the full menu for the calorie information. The menu for Head Start and pre-kindergarten students varies slightly from the elementary school menu. Visit the MCPS website for middle school lunch, high school lunch and middle and high school breakfast offerings.
Friday, March 29, 2013
A rundown of what MCPS is serving to students this week.
What's for lunch? This week's menu for Montgomery County Public Schools' elementary school cafeterias is listed below. Visit the full menu for the calorie information. The menu for Head Start and pre-kindergarten students varies slightly from the elementary school menu. Visit the MCPS website for middle school lunch, high school lunch and middle and high school breakfast offerings.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Catch up on school news from this week.
What's been going on with Montgomery County Public Schools this week? Here are a few education headlines from around the county: Achievement Gap Grows Wider in Some Areas MCPS Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and other county officials repeatedly have emphasized their goal of narrowing the achievement gap that separates white and Asian students from black and Hispanic students. But a 130-page report released this past week found that the gap in scores for Advanced Placement exams, SAT tests and state-level math exams actually has grown wider for MCPS students, The Washington Post reported. Patch education blogger Joseph Hawkins predicted this outcome in his analysis of the county's efforts to close the achievement gap. Here's what he wrote …
A rundown of what MCPS is serving to students this week.
What's for lunch? This week's menu for Montgomery County Public Schools' elementary school cafeterias is listed below. Visit the full menu for the calorie information. The menu for Head Start and pre-kindergarten students varies slightly from the elementary school menu. Visit the MCPS website for middle school lunch, high school lunch and middle and high school breakfast offerings.
Janis
9:51 am on Thursday, April 18, 2013
News flash: Graduation is FREE. There is NO SENIOR FEE authorized by the Board of Education or the State Legislature. Local schools have NO authority to charge parents outrageous sums ($70) for their child to graduate from a MCPS high school. more ›