Clarksburg
EDUCATION
School board’s new student member to focus on mental health, opioid awareness and school safety
Praneel Suvarna, a rising Clarksburg High School senior and newly sworn in student member of the county school board, plans to prioritize school safety and student mental health and take steps to help address the opioid crisis impacting students during his year-long term. “Those are things that as I was...
Loudoun Elementary School Attendance Zone Changes Coming This Fall
Attendance zone boundary changes are coming to two southern Loudoun elementary schools this fall, however administrators told the School Board the changes won’t impact any current students. They proposed an abbreviated attendance zone review, which will be discussed at a public hearing Aug. 13. The plan would move three...
New SMOB Looks Forward to Making a Difference
Praneel Suvarna, the new Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB), was sworn in Monday. MCM talked to the incoming and outgoing SMOBs. Suvarna, a rising senior at Clarksburg High School, now begins his one-year term with the school board for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). Suvarna said school safety, the opioid crisis, and mental health are priorities, as well as restoring trust that has been “eroded away over the past couple of years.”
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