Budget cuts threaten JV sports, coaching

Sarah Reitzes News Editor
May 16, 2011

Later this month, the Montgomery County Council will vote on a proposal to cut $1 million of the approximately $7 million budgeted for MCPS athletics. These cuts could include the elimination of JV cheerleading squads and coed volleyball teams in county high schools, the shortening of all JV seasons... Read more »

D.C. school vouchers hurt lower-income families

Sarah Reitzes, News Editor
April 11, 2011

MCPS may be considered one of the best school systems in the country, and CHS one of the top 100 high schools, but right next door the D.C. public school system is considered one of the worst. If House of Representatives speaker John Boehner’s bill to revive D.C.’s Opportunity Scholarship Program... Read more »

College sued for immigrant tuition

By Sarah Reitzes, Fact Checker
March 1, 2011

Three Montgomery County residents filed a lawsuit Jan. 20 against Montgomery College’s board of trustees for charging in-county tuition rates to all recent graduates of MCPS high schools, including those who are not legal residents of the U.S.   Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan government watchdog group,... Read more »

K-12 Math Work presents county with changes for its math curriculum

By Sarah Reitzes, Fact Checker
December 21, 2010

The K-12 Math Work Group presented a set of 26 recommendations for changes to the MCPS math curriculum to Superintendent Jerry Weast and the Board of Education in early November. Assembled in January 2009, the K-12 Math Work Group’s objective is to improve the MCPS math program. “The goal of the... Read more »

Energy drinks banned in VA high school sports

October 27, 2010

The Virginia High School League (VHSL) banned the use of energy drinks effective immediately, in all Virginia high school athletics at a Sept. 22 meeting. The policy, adopted from the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS) position statement on the same subject, forbids athletes from... Read more »

Guidance Counselor Julie Kraus retiring

By Sarah Reitzes, Fact Checker
June 3, 2010

After working at CHS for 21 years, guidance counselor Julie Kraus will retire this June. Kraus remembers being at CHS for Bruce Springsteen’s 40th birthday in 1989 as well as his 60th birthday last year, and remembers class photos in which her former coworkers have “big hair and bangs” and are... Read more »

Assistant Principal Leo McDonald retiring

By Sarah Reitzes, Fact Checker
June 2, 2010

After 5 years at CHS and 38 years in MCPS, assistant principal Leo McDonald is retiring in June. McDonald has taught nearly every science class that MCPS offers and has also been assistant principal at Poolesville, Sherwood, Redland Middle School and CHS. “It doesn’t seem real that it has been [this]... Read more »