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Ashlyn Campbell
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perpetually tired news nerd || they/she || education reporter with Bethesda Today || former: Daily News Record, The Breeze JMU || reach me at ashlyn.campbell@moco360.media
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Ashlyn Campbell @a--campbell.bsky.social · Jul 24
Okayyy after a hot minute I am now on Bluesky!! Howdy everyone! I’m Ashlyn, the education reporter for Bethesda Today (formerly called MoCo360). I am here to cover all Montgomery County school news 🕺🏻
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MCPS has several deficiencies in its background screening process, leading to nearly 13,000 employees with outdated criminal history checks:

bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/04/m...
Report: Nearly half of MCPS employees have outdated criminal history checks
MCPS has deficiencies in its background screening process, leading to nearly 13,000 employees with outdated criminal history checks.
bethesdamagazine.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The county’s Office of the Inspector General put out a report about deficiencies in MCPS’s background screening processes, here’s a link to the report, story to come:

www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OIG/Resource...
www.montgomerycountymd.gov
August 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Everyone should read this very cool article about a very cool topic that I am a giant nerd about:
ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social · Aug 1
Water cremation might sound like sci-fi. But Lily Buerkle and Adrian Gardner, who started a green funeral business, say it's a more environmentally sustainable and even physically gentler way to handle death, and a new bill could legalize it in Montgomery County. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/01/w...
A greener goodbye: MoCo funeral business advocates for water cremation legalization
A Bethesda funeral business hopes their efforts to legalize alkaline hydrolysis, or water cremation, will aid in environmental sustainability.
bethesdamagazine.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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MCPS is proposing implementing regional programming to replace its long-standing model of offering competitive, countywide programs and others provided through high school consortia. Here’s five things to know about that recommendation:

bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/31/m...
Five things to know about MCPS’s proposed programming changes
MCPS is proposing to implement regional programming to replace offering countywide programs and others through high school consortia.
bethesdamagazine.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Okay need to update because MCPS put out a second message, Mooney will be assistant principal at James Hubert Blake High School, not Einstein. This is a change from the original letter sent to the community earlier today.
July 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Latest from me, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High Principal Shelton Mooney steps down to take on assistant principal role at Albert Einstein High:

bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/29/b...
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High principal resigns
Shelton Mooney, the principal of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, announced in an email to staff Tuesday that he “made the decision to step down as principal."
bethesdamagazine.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Today a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury ordered the county school board to pay former B-CC teacher Dan Engler $518K after finding the board was ultimately responsible for defaming Engler in a 2023 email accusing him of racism:

bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/23/s...
MoCo school board ordered to pay $518K to former B-CC High teacher accused of racism
A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury on Wednesday ordered the county school board to pay former B-CC teacher Dan Engler $518,000 in damages
bethesdamagazine.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Okayyy after a hot minute I am now on Bluesky!! Howdy everyone! I’m Ashlyn, the education reporter for Bethesda Today (formerly called MoCo360). I am here to cover all Montgomery County school news 🕺🏻
July 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM