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School board to hear work group recommendations about SROs
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May 6, 2021 | 9:24 pm
May 6, 2021
School board to hear work group recommendations about SROs
The Montgomery County Board of Education will meet on Tuesday to hear recommendations from a work group tasked with reviewing its school resource officer program and discuss school reopenings.
Some board members will attend the meeting, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., in person while others will log on virtually.
Along with the school reopening discussion, now a standard part of each meeting, the board will consider the recommendations from the SRO work group it convened last summer.
13 positives identified through pool testing; 137 cases reported publicly since March 1
May 6, 2021 | 10:22 am
May 7, 2021
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This story was updated at 5:50 p.m. May 7, 2021, to correct a reference to Chevy Chase Elementary School.
The number of COVID-19 cases reported among Montgomery County Public Schools staff members and students nearly doubled in the past three weeks.
Since schools began reopening on March 1, at least 137 cases have been reported, and 64 were reported since April 14.
While health officials have said any increase in cases is “concerning,” more cases were expected as more students and employees returned to buildings.
MCPS used a phased reopening schedule that brought more children into buildings in waves. After the first 700 students returned, about 20,000 children were brought back in each of the next three phases.
Eight Montgomery County schools in top 25 on U.S. News & World Report list
April 27, 2021 | 12:01 am
April 26, 2021
After a one-year hiatus, Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda was once again named Maryland’s top high school in the latest version of an annual list released by U.S. News & World Report.
Last year’s top school, Poolesville High, was No. 2 this year.
This year, eight Montgomery County schools ranked among the state’s top 25, and four were ranked in the top five.
None ranked in the top 100 nationally. Whitman was ranked 111th nationally, and four others were among the country’s top 500.