MCPS Construction Trades Foundation program appears gone after budget cuts
After months of warnings that budget cuts could shut it down, the Montgomery County Public Schools Construction Trades Foundation program at Thomas Edison High School of Technology appears to have ended this school year.
A visit to the school turned up empty parking spaces reserved for Foundations Office staff. The construction zone where students have built homes for decades sat bare, with no equipment or activity visible.
A staff member who answered the phone at Thomas Edison confirmed MCPS had cut the program.
A program 50 years in the making
The program marked its 50th year in operation this past spring. Students from Thomas Edison and Seneca Valley high schools spent two years building the program’s 44th home, a three level, four-bedroom house on O’Fallon Street in Silver Spring. The home sold for $799,000…
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