2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (195+ words) January 11, 2026, 5:47 PM Prince William Public Libraries recently received a continent-wide honor from a North American nonprofit dedicated to promoting urban libraries. The Urban Libraries Council named the county's libraries as a "Top Innovator" for 2025 in the contest's "advocacy and awareness…...

7+ hour, 27+ min ago   (135+ words) January 11, 2026, 6:01 PM Twenty-two Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) employees were flagged " two with disqualifying criminal charges and 20 with Child Protective Services findings " during a recent rescreening to clear a backlog of nearly 10,600 background checks for school-based staff, MCPS told Bethesda…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (470+ words) January 10, 2026, 5:01 AM David Lee Reynolds, Jr. spent two decades working as a music teacher before transitioning to teach technology. When he made the switch, Vienna Elementary School didn't have a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math, or STEAM, lab. To…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (382+ words) LOCAL UPDATE: Arrest made in death of DC police officer struck by car January 9, 2026, 1:31 PM The move comes as the Trump administration sends 2,000 immigration agents to the area and the community responds to the fatal shooting of a local woman…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (732+ words) January 9, 2026, 5:30 AM The founder of Montgomery County's only charter school appeared before the Board of Education on Thursday to make the case for keeping the school open as it faces revocation of its charter. Montgomery County Superintendent Thomas Taylor recommended…...

3+ day, 8+ min ago   (582+ words) JUST IN: Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say January 8, 2026, 8:20 PM The public comment portion of the Montgomery County Board of Education meeting Thursday was dominated by parents who oppose the proposal to close Wootton…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (150+ words) January 8, 2026, 2:13 PM A Health and Human Services spokesperson said he could not comment on the judge's order. Head Start, founded six decades ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, is an early education and family support program…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (880+ words) January 7, 2026, 8:45 PM Without federal subsidies, Breyanna Rodriguez's child care bill for her four children would run $4,400 a month, which would eat up most of her husband's paycheck. With child care assistance, Rodriguez, who lives in Cortland, Illinois, is able to…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (412+ words) January 7, 2026, 10:20 AM Despite repeated pressure from the federal Department of Education in 2025, Prince William County Public Schools has maintained its regulation that allows students to use school facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (542+ words) January 6, 2026, 8:12 PM A Texas teachers union sued the state's education department on Tuesday, accusing it of an improper "wave of retaliation" against public school employees over their social media comments following the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. Despite…...