School infrastructure has been a constantly occurring issue throughout the county and Superintendent Jack Smith has released his vision for schools in the years to come. This plan includes nine new projects for the county and is projected at a cost of $1.82 billion. 

Th...

Shiima Nantulya, a Walter Johnson High School student, started a club called Maison Shalom, which aims to raise money and awareness about the refugees of the Rwandan genocide. The club’s name means house of peace in French and Hebrew.

 The club’s main focus is to help r...

Not only does an organization need to be cohesive and qualified in order to work effectively, but it’s members need to be comfortable and know each other on a personal level to be an efficient force such as MCR. In order to do so, the MCR and MCJC Executive Boards met...

Montgomery County Board of Education has been reviewing the proposed physical education credit for student athletes. Student Member, Nate Tinbite drafted a proposal that change that can affect all student athletes in Montgomery County. 

Tinbite’s proposal was to take aw...

A whistle-blower’s complaint accused President Trump of using his office to try to get Ukraine to help him with his re-election campaign in 2020. This led to an impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence Committee on September 26, 2019. 

At the core of the whistl...

WASHINGTON D.C. – nearly 400 MCPS students marched out of school on Sept. 20, chanting and waving signs bearing messages such as “There is No Planet B” and “We Are Skipping Our Lessons to Teach You One”. 

They filed onto the Friday morning metro heading into D.C. to jo...

A lot of attention recently has been drawn to the issue of police officers shooting unarmed citizens. Graduate student, Travis Washington has recently launched a petition for a piece of legislation called the ‘Hands Up’ Act. The ‘Hands Up’ Act penalizes police officers...

“To say [the] world has changed (in recent years) is an understatement,” said Scott Murphy, director of the Montgomery County Department of Secondary Curriculum and Districtwide Programs. “In 2019, it’s a different world and we are compelled to change how we think abou...

A group of approximately a hundred students with the common goal of inspiring change to represent high schools from all around Montgomery County gathered on Wednesday, June 5, and were officially sworn in as the 2019-2020 MCR Executive Board. As MCR president Pranav Ta...

The last MCR General Assembly of the school year frequently brings excitement to the Montgomery County students who attend. Student delegates from every MoCo high school vote on who they would like to see leading the Executive Board for the following school year. This...