On Dec. 12, 2025, Albert Einstein High School hosted its annual Winter Jazz and Dance Concert. This event showcased dancers from seven curricular classes and one extracurricular group, as well as musicians from two curricular jazz ensembles. 

Collectively, the dance groups performed 13 dances, and the jazz ensembles performed 10 songs.

By Emily Markin

On Dec. 9, the Montgomery County Council voted 7-3 in favor of the deeply controversial University Boulevard Corridor Plan (UBC).

The UBC Plan refers to an urban planning initiative for a 3.5-mile stretch of University Boulevard from Four Corners to Wheaton.

By Evan McFarland

Einstein STAGE’s spring musical is “In the Heights,” an exciting, representative choice for Einstein and the most modern musical STAGE has ever performed. However, concerns have been raised over whether STAGE is the right program to put on such a diverse show this year.

By Julie Kessel

On Tuesday, Dec. 3, Einstein hosted a Boundary Study meeting to provide information and hear questions and concerns from the Einstein community who may be affected by a change in boundaries.

By Valerie Merkowitz

Along with redrawing boundary lines and dividing MCPS high schools into new regions, Montgomery County is also working on a new program analysis. This model will allocate programs within the new proposed regions, with each region containing the same set of programs. Einstein is planned for Region One along with Northwood, Blair, Whitman, and BCC.

By Campbell Goldston

Silver Spring International Middle School's Proposed Closure

On Oct. 13, MCPS superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor announced that he was planning to recommend the closure of Silver Spring International Middle School (SSIMS) and build a new Sligo Creek Elementary School (SCES) at a new location. On Dec. 12, a vote was held at the Board of Education meeting, which resulted in the suspension of the process of recommending the closure of SSIMS. 

By Luisa Farole

In 1995, a group of Latin American students at Einstein High School founded a club to embrace their culture through dance, calling themselves Latin American Students United (LASU). Thirty years later, on Sept. 26, 2025, the same club, now known as Titanes Salseros, celebrated three decades of passionate, award-winning Latin dance and a tight-knit community of cultural pride and connectivity.

By Paulina Mann

Einstein S.T.A.G.E put on their highly anticipated winter performance, the student-directed One Acts, Friday, Jan. 9th, and Saturday, Jan. 10th. The senior student directors, working to complete their VAPA capstone projects, produced 6 pieces, ranging from 15 to 40 minutes in length. 

By Luisa Farole

An aggressive influenza season has raised concerns for families across the country, after an otherwise healthy 16-year-old girl in Ohio died from flu complications in late December.

Ryleigh Spurlock first started getting symptoms on Dec. 23, 2025, and died just five days later on Dec. 28. 

By Elena Limauro

On Oct. 19, at approximately 9:30 a.m., four individuals dressed as construction workers approached the Musée du Louvre on motorbikes. By 9:38 a.m., eight items, valued at approximately $102.3 million, were stolen, and the four suspects involved were gone. 

By Paulina Mann

Recently, discussions about Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker, have resurfaced. One of the many people mentioned in these discussions is President Donald Trump, who repeatedly denies knowing about Epstein’s island and also denies having anything to do with him. 

By Andrés Guzmán

On Saturday, Oct. 24, hundreds of students from twelve marching bands across Montgomery County gathered at Einstein to perform at the 2025 Marching Band Showcase. The event featured performances by MCPS high school marching bands from schools like Damascus, Blake, Blair, Rockville, Springbrook, and more, as well as two special performances from MCPS middle schoolers and the University of Maryland’s Mighty Sound of Maryland.

By Leif Lesperance

With summer break officially closing its doors on Aug. 25, Albert Einstein High School opened its doors for the first-ever “Student Transition Day.” 

The Montgomery County Board of Education approved the new day for the 2025-2026 school year on Dec. 5, 2024. MCPS’ goal for the student transition day was to help students adapt to their new schools, allowing students to ease their anxieties before the first day of school.

By Cristian Perez

Since Einstein opened its doors for the new school year on Aug. 26, every student has heard the phrase, “bell to bell, no cell,” and seen the MCPS Cell Phone and Personal Mobile Device Regulation’s updated policy for the 2025-2026 school year put into effect. 

By Paulina Mann

The starvation in Gaza, commonly referred to as the Gaza Famine, has already killed almost 400 people, including 140 children, as of Sept. 9, 2025. 

Palestinians are deliberately being starved, and according to How to stop Israel from starving Gaza, “more than half a million Palestinians face catastrophic hunger, and at least 132,000 children aged below five years are at risk of death from acute malnutrition.”

By Kelly Tran

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 6:40 a.m., Joshua Jahn, 29, killed two people and injured another before taking his own life at a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. 

Norlan Guzmán Fuentes, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, passed away six days following the shooting after being taken off life support

By Luisa Farole

At 10 a.m. on Sept. 28, the ninth annual Wheaton Arts Parade kicked off along Georgia Ave. Residents of the area and surrounding communities flocked to the streets of downtown Wheaton to claim a spot to watch the parade. Artists and organizations spent the morning setting up their tents along the blocked-off roads and preparing to engage with fellow passionate community members.

By Leif Lesperance