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Frederick County School Board To Discuss Student Cell Phone Policy
Students can bring their mobile phones to school, but in many cases they need to silence them. Frederick, Md (KM) Cell phone use by students in Frederick County Public Schools is expected to be discussed during a Board of Education Meeting on September 11th. That’s according to Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Dyson who says there are guidelines and expectations when it comes to mobile phone use by students in schools.
First-year FCPS teacher prepares for first day of school
FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Frederick County students are not the only ones getting ready for the first day of school. As the new academic year approaches, teachers prepare to welcome kids back to the classroom. First-grade teacher Lynnsey Tressler may be new to teaching, but she is no stranger to the education […]
Drs. Salim Karim and Anthony Fauci to speak at Hood College
FREDERICK, Md. — Dr. Salim Abdool Karim and Dr. Anthony Fauci are among a list of scientists and researchers who will speak at “HIV in 2024: Progress, Problems and Prospects,” a scientific symposium hosted by Hood College in partnership with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL), which will take place from Sept. 23 to 25. Karim, the director for the Centre for AIDS Programs of Research in South Africa, will open the scientific symposium with...
Montgomery County Public School cuts Chief Medical Officer position after 2 years
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) – Two years after the Chief Medical Office (CMO) position was created at Montgomery County Public Schools, (MCPS) the school system decided to cut it. Dr. Patricia Kapunan assumed the role in 2022 which was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And while the CMO position was meant […]
A school report card and love letter
I was thinking the other day, I’m a lot closer these days to the end of life’s road than its beginning; but I wondered if the end of the road might be likened to a sunrise and sunset. And if so, then maybe one’s spirit has no end, just like the sun, for while it disappears in one sphere of the world, it rises in another and continues; a circle of life. ...
Far from home: MCPS community welcomes Filipino special education teachers
Tucked into a downtown Silver Spring apartment on a Friday afternoon, a group of 10 teachers talked excitedly about the experience of traveling more than 8,500 miles from home in the Philippines to Montgomery County. The group is part of a 42-member cultural exchange cohort that was recently welcomed by...
Antisemitic graffiti and other vandalism found at more Montgomery Co. schools
“It’s disappointing that teachers and administrators returned to school today, only to face this kind of hateful graffiti on their building walls,” said Guila Franklin Siegel, chief operating officer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. The graffiti at the schools — Wootton High School in...
Opening of new gym delayed at Silver Spring middle school
Silver Spring International Middle School students won’t be entering their new gym until the spring, after an extension to the completion date due to “construction challenges” was approved Tuesday by the county school board. The Montgomery County Planning Board approved the gym project at the school at...
First Class of HAMSci Academy Receives White Coats
Students in the new Health and Medical Sciences Academy received their white lab coats uring an Aug. 15 in a ceremony at Briar Woods High School. Sheila Alzate, principal of Briar Woods and Pamela Croft, principal of Tuscarora High School, where the programs will take place for the first time this year, presented the white coats to the 150 rising freshman in the program.
Mobile Hope Helps Over 500 Ahead of New School Year
Mobile Hope on Saturday set up its annual Back-to-School Village in Leesburg providing over 500 children with school supplies, haircuts, food, household necessities, hygiene items, clothes and shoes. As the school year kicks off Aug. 22, 1,545 Loudoun County Public School students are considered homeless under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless...
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