Board of Ed Will Vote on Middle School Site Selection

The Montgomery County Board of Education will vote tonight on whether to redo the site-selection process for the controversial middle school planned for .

Last week, Superintendent Joshua Starr in picking a location for the second Bethesda-Chevy Chase middle school, after hearing complaints from neighbors and discovering a possible legal barrier.

The meeting starts at 6 p.m. tonight in the board's . You can also stream the meeting online from MCPS's website.

If the board passes Starr's recommendation, MCPS would recruit site-selection committee members in December and begin the process anew in January. The new committee would consider and include any others proposed by members.

Starr has said that the new middle school, where ever it's located, needs to open in August 2017 to accommodate projected enrollment growth. Redoing this process will not push back the school's opening, he said.