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Gaithersburg residents urge board not to convert Crown High School into temporary holding school
Summary
Residents and parents told the Montgomery County Board of Education that using Crown High School as a temporary holding site would violate prior land and funding agreements, waste more than $180 million in local investments and betray community trust; speakers asked the board to keep Crown on track to open as a permanent neighborhood high school in 2027.
Hundreds of community members told the Montgomery County Board of Education on Nov. 20 they oppose a staff proposal to use the new Crown High School as a temporary holding site while other construction and repairs occur elsewhere in the county.
Speakers from the Crown neighborhood, including Jessica Hammock and Nora Walsh, argued that Crown was designed, funded and approved as a permanent neighborhood high school under a 2016 annexation agreement and county capital plans, and that changing its scope would conflict with that agreement and Maryland land‑use approvals. "To use those funds to build a holding school is not lawful," Jessica Hammock said, referencing the local school impact tax paid by Crown developers.…
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