MoCo inspector general deals with eight-fold increase in MCPS-related complaints

Plus: Three injured in 1-270 crash, fireworks spill onto highway; poetry based on Raskin memoir set to music

July 5, 2024 10:00 a.m.

The number of complaints about Montgomery County Public Schools received by the county’s Office of the Inspector General showed an eight-fold increase in the past year, with 185 complaints filed from July 1, 2023, to June 30. That’s compared with 22 from the year before, according to office data. [The Washington Post]

Three injured in 1-270 crash, fireworks spill onto highway

Three people were injured early Thursday in a fiery two-vehicle crash on Interstate 270 near Montrose Road in Rockville that scattered illegal fireworks across the highway, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. [WUSA9]

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Poetry based on U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin’s memoir set to music

A 2023 memoir by U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin was the inspiration for poetry that has been set to original music in “The Jamie Raskin Oratorio,” a work commissioned by the nonprofit Washington Musica Viva. [WTOP]

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