Tag: Community

  • Source Marks Third Anniversary with Launch of Membership Program

    Source Marks Third Anniversary with Launch of Membership Program

    The Source of the Spring is marking its third anniversary with the launch of a membership program designed to help ensure its finances are stable and the site can continue to operate in the future. The Source launched on Oct. 26, 2016 with a party for friends and supporters on the rooftop of Kaldi’s Social…

  • Street Fest to Combine Activities and Advocacy Tomorrow

    Street Fest to Combine Activities and Advocacy Tomorrow

    Attendees can combine activities and advocacy at the second Montgomery Hills Street Fest scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 21 from 3–7 p.m. The festival will be held on Columbia Boulevard, between Seminary Road and 16th Street, and feature local artisans who specialize in pottery, painting, fused class, jewelry and clay pendants, along with food and entertainment.

  • Weeklong Festival Begins Tomorrow in Long Branch

    Weeklong Festival Begins Tomorrow in Long Branch

    The first Long Branch Festival begins Friday night, Sept. 20, for a weeklong celebration of the neighborhoods, businesses and culture of the area, according to organizers. “The purpose of the Long Branch Festival is to celebrate the dynamic neighborhood, businesses and culture of Long Branch,” according to the festival website. “Our goal is to bring…

  • School Boundaries: Focusing on Process

    School Boundaries: Focusing on Process

    While boundary change is likely to remain emotive however it is pursued, focusing on the process over the outcome could address the most trenchant opposition: a) periodic review and adjustment of boundaries, and b) an independent and binding review commission in charge of the process.

  • School Boundaries: A New Coalition?

    School Boundaries: A New Coalition?

    So, are the current efforts to revisit boundary change evidence of an emerging new coalition? The clearest proponents of boundary change appear to be MCPS students themselves.

  • School Boundaries: Will the Money Talk?

    School Boundaries: Will the Money Talk?

    Rachel Carson Elementary School has been a particularly egregious case demonstrating the need for boundary change. The school has been overcrowded by hundreds of students for over a decade, but the community has rejected boundary change that would reassign students to one of five other underenrolled schools within two miles.

  • School Boundaries: Stability, Choice, and the Achievement Gap

    School Boundaries: Stability, Choice, and the Achievement Gap

    Since the late 1990s, with enrollment numbers swinging back up, MCPS has built new schools in burgeoning upcounty areas, renovated and expanded old schools to accommodate more students, and reopened some that it had closed during the 1980s retrenchment.

  • School Boundaries: A Most Explosive Political Question

    School Boundaries: A Most Explosive Political Question

    Montgomery County’s population is not only principally center-left, but also highly educated and employed in professions requiring years of training and the accretion of intellectual capital. Not surprisingly, they have an absolute belief in the necessity of high-quality education in preparing their children for a globally competitive labor market.

  • Is a New Boundary Change Coalition Emerging in Montgomery County?

    Is a New Boundary Change Coalition Emerging in Montgomery County?

    Finally, after years of Montgomery County Public Schools resegregating and the achievement gap growing despite efforts to shrink it, the debate over school boundary change has come out into the open.