Montgomery County Public School Statistics onemontgomery.wordpress.com/?p=354

How one school system became a model of integration—but when it resegregated, academic performance plummeted: ow.ly/ZDeA304Pdy8

MCPS will hire 300 new staff to reduce class sizes and close the achievement gap in high-needs schools: ow.ly/ecpv304T9jr

.George Leventhal on MCPS achievement: “Why are students still so limited by the neighborhood in which they live?” youtu.be/8OPjADHVYC0

How online school ratings can unfairly color perception—and encourage segregation by race and class: ow.ly/KHbh3051Xwd

Mental health is a big part of student success. It's great that Blake HS is promoting suicide prevention: ow.ly/61D4305547T

One small change on a form let low-income kids in Gaithersburg play team sports. It’s a model for the whole county! ow.ly/WHej305EaiX

New rule changes could make MCPS language immersion programs accessible to more students: ow.ly/7xhA307d9ae

LIVE: MCPS' Superintendent Jack Smith is discussing the last year in local education news –and what's to come wamu.fm/2iMr6MI

MCPS parents have been asking for more bilingual staff for years. Will the school system fund it this year ow.ly/G101307IMVz?

"[If parents say] it's not good enough for my child, then why are we putting any children in those schools?" ow.ly/2Ml930858vx

Schools drive home values in MoCo. If all MCPS schools were strong, parents wouldn’t pay to avoid certain ones. ow.ly/CDhK308oGaA

How peer pressure and the fear of “acting white” can discourage minority students from excelling in the classroom: ow.ly/eWwV308wN4J

Do segregated neighborhoods make segregated schools? Actually, it might be the other way around: ow.ly/sHn4308BYM6

School choice was supposed to solve school segregation. Here’s why it didn’t (and how we can fix it). ow.ly/6Emk3096bUV

This is a story about segregated schools & classrooms in Howard County, but it could easily apply to MCPS too. ow.ly/eqdF30ah4Ea

"The best way to provide quality across social class, race and ethnicity is to invest in public schools." ow.ly/g45P30awFtc

MCPS is diverse, but its student representatives on the school board are decidedly not, says this Blair student. ow.ly/Wd8A30aZXsf

like MoCo, Fairfax County struggles to make sure all students have access to its most rigorous magnet school. ow.ly/ltuC30bc6SD

MCPS magnet programs aren't helping to close the achievement gap. But new policies mean that could soon change. ow.ly/buO230cawZl