Credit Stacie Wheeler

School is about to start, and one big decision other than what the first-day outfit will be is whether or not your child will eat a packed lunch or buy lunch from school. The great t...

Credit Taylor Wiles

  Six-hundred, eight-eight dollars and 62 cents. That is the amount the average person with children in grades kindergarten to 12th grade is expected to spend this year on back-...

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Montgomery County Public Schools will amp up services for autistic students in several county high schools this year.Watkins Mill High School in Gaithersburg, Potomac's Winston Churchill ...

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Within the confines of Gaithersburg's new Crown Development is a 32-acre plot that, unlike much of the planned residential and retail sites on the property's approximately 180 acres, will...

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With less than one month until the start of the 2012-13 school year, the Gaithersburg mayor and City Council will get a projects update from Montgomery County Public Schools at the Counci...

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Your kids’ lunches have a lot of roles to fill.  For you, they must be healthy and fast to prepare; for your kids, their lunch must be portable, easy to eat, and most of all, appeali...

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At the risk of dating myself, I will say that back when I went to college, you packed up your clothes, a basic comforter for your bed and maybe, if you were lucky, an air popcorn popper w...

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Getting ready for school in the morning is always hectic—lunches need to be packed, outfits picked out, breakfast served—all in time to get your kids on the bus. So amidst all the ch...