MCPS superintendent to introduce new safety and security measures

With a new chief of security for schools and the beginning of classes a week away, Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor is slated to introduce several new safety and security changes for the district at Tuesday’s county school board meeting, according to board documents. The scheduled update included in Tuesday’s meeting agenda follows Taylor’s comments at an Aug. 7 press briefing where he said the district had work to do when addressing safety.