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Call Warned CHS About Student

More details emerge about the student taken out of Catoctin High School in Thurmont yesterday. A senior at CHSl was removed from school...

School Capacity Still an Issue

Even with addition of Butterfly Ridge Elementary, [design pictured above, courtesy of FCPS] FCPS struggles with overcrowding Frederick...

Shreve clarifies overcrowded comments

County Council Member Billy Shreve got a bit of pushback following comments characterizing Urbana parents as unconcerned about school...

Policy Didn't Do the Job

Cindy Rose and a group of like-minded parents thought they’d scored a victory last summer with a successful bid to change a testing...

Losing your job over a tweet?

Frederick County Public Schools and the Board of Education need a sense of humor. After suffering an inordinate amount of sanctimonious...

Protecting the Nest, Not the Public

The reason the Maryland State Department of Education denied my public information act request – please stop calling it a FOIA request,...

Data Breach Update

Parents of students whose personal information was stolen and posted for sale online are still looking for answers. Flemming Paschal’s...

FCPS refutes state's version of breach

The student data breach that came to light last week, also included names from schools outside of Frederick County, said Michael Doerrer,...

FCPS wrong on data breach, MSDE says

I posed several questions to MSDE regarding the recent student data breach at FCPS. I was told the Department was putting together a...

Student data stolen from FCPS

Student data about Frederick County Public School students, including name, date of birth, and social security number, was discovered on...

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