MCPS Division of Food and Nutrition Services is working to remove a number of dangerous chemical additives and food dyes from food served in cafeterias after receiving a petition this summer from Real...
By Pablo Roa, Production Editor
• October 27, 2014
While most CHS students will be sleeping in on Nov. 4, Americans across the country will be heading to the polling booths to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
Election Day not only gives students...
By Pablo Roa, Production Editor
• October 27, 2014
Teens ages 15-19 make up 51 percent of underage pedestrian fatalities. In Montgomery County, that age group also makes up the largest percentage of pedestrians who are at fault in collisions. With the...
When students misbehave, they are often removed from the classroom environment. New MCPS disciplinary policies, however, are looking to change that.
The goal of these new policies, outlined in the 2014-2015...
MCPS paid D.C. law firm Venable, LLP $140,000 between May and August of this year to advise and defend the Board of Education (BOE) in an incident of recent credit card misuse.
According to a September...
Gone are the days of staying for hours after school to work on homecoming floats.
As of this year, all homecoming floats will be built off campus and only brought to school for the parade.
“The...
For centuries, people have sought better lives by immigrating to America, and it is no different for the influx of unaccompanied Central American minors newly enrolled in MCPS.
According to Laura Newton,...
By Pablo Roa, Production Editor
• September 24, 2014
Superintendent Joshua Starr recommended in October 2013 that MCPS push back high school start times, citing concerns over the lack of sleep teenagers are getting with the current bell schedule, later Starr...
Before the installation of Wi-Fi at CHS, biology teacher Wendy Saoutis had to take her students to the computer lab whenever they needed to do research. Now, Saoutis just has to tell her students to...
Earlier this month Newsweek released its list of top 500 American high schools, with CHS taking the 24th spot. Poolsville, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman and Bethesda-Chevy Chase also made the list.
Newsweek...
CHS freshmen gathered at Shepherd Stadium during lunch Thursday for the annual D.A.W.G.S. Freshman Picnic.
According to event co-chair and CHS parent Natasha Greig, D.A.W.G.S. is an acronym for “Dances...
Candidates for District 16’s representative to the Maryland House of Delegates will square off in a primary election June 24.
The winner will move on to the general election Nov. 4. With the primary...
