Save Our Silver Spring Schools

Advocacy

Letters to MCPS and BOE

Community Engagement Letter to MCPS & BOE | 9/28/26

Memo to MCPS and Flo Analytics: Criteria for modernization of the closure process and other recommendations | 9/17/26

Letter to MCPS Board of Education: Woodward/Northwood Boundaries, Investment in SSIMS/SCES, and Delay Consolidation and Elementary School Boundaries Due to Bad Data | 3/18/26

Op-Eds

Opinion: Here’s what MCPS must demonstrate before closing a school | 9/30/26 – Bethesda Magazine

Why MCPS’s New Consolidation Plan Raises Serious Concerns for Montgomery County Families – Montgomery Perspective | 9/29/26 – Montgomery Perspective

Press Releases

Support for Northwood Cluster Testimony on Woodward/Northwood | 3/10/26

Boundaries and Investment in SSIMS/SCES in the CIP

Tell the Board of Education: MCPS Must Make Critical Changes to the Proposed New Program Model Before Voting | 3/1/26

Silver Spring Parents and Cluster Leadership Call Out “11th-Hour” Boundary Proposal as “Strategy to Advance” School Closure | 2/27/26

Save Our Silver Spring Schools (SOSSS) Calls for Rejection of “Modified Option B”: It Needs Community Input | 2/13/26

Save Our Silver Spring Schools Demands $60 Million for Urgent Safety Repairs to SSIMS and SCES in Testimony Before County Council | 2/12/26

Save Our Silver Spring Schools Applauds County Executive Elrich’s Move to Protect Neighborhood Schools | 1/17/26

BOE Votes Down Expedited Process for Closure of SSIMS | 12/11/25

Silver Spring Parents and Community Express Deep Concern After BOE Rushes Approval of Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s Controversial CIP | 11/20/25

SOSSS Endorses Board Member Montoya’s Amendments to the CIP | 11/19/25