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Major changes are coming for thousands of Montgomery County students

Big changes are coming to Montgomery County Public Schools.

With their vote Thursday night, the school board reshaped campus boundaries and academic programs. Their decisions came after months of protests and often contentious debate on both sides of the issues.

And while Thursday marks the board’s decision on a complex road map for the district, a group of parents has already pledged to pursue legal action over one of the most high-profile elements of the plan: relocating Wootton High School from its Rockville campus to a new building in Gaithersburg.

The meeting was tense, with security staff standing by and residents jeering as board members justified their votes.

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Move over birding, the focus shifts to Frog Watch season

Spring migration is underway, and birders are breaking out their binoculars, but they're not the only ones on the hunt to observe and document wildlife in their area. Montgomery County Parks Naturalist Jackie Raiford told WTOP that 40 volunteers signed up this year for the Maryland county's FrogWatch program, a nationwide community science program that monitors from frog populations and launched locally in 1998.
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