The days of checking the web or local TV news station for school snow day closures are long gone.
Montgomery County Public Schools on Monday launched a new website and mobile app that will send push notifications to a user’s phone or tablet about emergency closures, delays and other important MCPS news.
The free app, which you can download through Apple, Google for android and Amazon, will also include school year calendars, lunch menus, news stories, contact information, MCPS videos and access to the school district’s official Twitter feeds, plus the Twitter feed of superintendent Dr. Joshua Starr.
In a press release on Monday, MCPS said its website gets an average of 1.7 million page views per week during the school year with an increasing amount of its visitors coming from mobile devices. Mobile visits to MCPS web pages have grown by more than 400 percent since 2012.
As part of creating a more mobile-friendly website, MCPS also redesigned its old one. It now “not only has a more contemporary look, but also is better organized to make information easier to find,” according to the MCPS press release.
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