Is it legal for MCPS to pay salary of a private school principal?

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Nobody ‘opposes’ the program. I’m sure it’s great. My neighbor attends.

However, we do oppose using Public School Money to fund a Private School. Unless you are for Charter Schools (which maybe you are?).

No one attends Saturday School INSTEAD OF attending a MCPS public school. It does not replace the education received during the school day. It provides extra tutoring and enrichment at below-market rates. Did no one commenting on this thread see the recent thread about whether MCPS should be providing MORE money and support for tutoring and enrichment activities for low-income students? http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/728317.page

You may oppose using some public school money to fund after school tutoring and enrichment at below-market rates through a non-profit entity that receives 28% of its funding from MCPS and 72% of its funding from other sources, but calling that "using public school money to fund a private school" is misleading and disingenuous.

Talking about ‘below market rates’ doesn’t make it okay. Market rates for tutoring can be $350/hour, that doesn’t make $250/hour acceptable.

The Saturday school rate is $70 FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR. Not anything close to $250/hour.

You are totally missing the point. The point is NOT how much tutoring costs per hour.

What is billed to the county and what a parent is paying for here are two different things. The taxpayers could effectively be paying $250/hour in addition to the students who are paying $40/year.

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If they are paying her for her work at a Saturday school then yes it is wrong.

Also, Saturday school should be offered for all MCPS children if it is offered at all, not just for certain schools.

It is offered for all MCPS children.

http://www.saturdayschool.org/register/

Why are there 4 locations in Silver Spring and no locations in Poolesville, Bethesda or Potomac? Are there no struggling students in those areas? Or is the idea that they are supposed to pay for their own private tutoring?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting that there is SO much support for Charter Schools in this thread. Sounds like there are lots of MCPS parents who do support using public money to fund private schools/tutoring/education programs.

Maybe now is the time for Charters to come to MCPS.

So many parents are unhappy about MCPS incompetence (eg Curriculum Fiasco, Sexual predators in the classrooms).

This thread makes it seem that parents would support private programs as long as they feel like they are getting results.

Gosh, that's really not all the message I'm getting from this thread.

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If they are paying her for her work at a Saturday school then yes it is wrong.

Also, Saturday school should be offered for all MCPS children if it is offered at all, not just for certain schools.

It is offered for all MCPS children.

http://www.saturdayschool.org/register/

Why are there 4 locations in Silver Spring and no locations in Poolesville, Bethesda or Potomac? Are there no struggling students in those areas? Or is the idea that they are supposed to pay for their own private tutoring?

Silver Spring is HUGE and much more densely populated than Bethesda. As a result, it may take as long for me to get to Blair as for you to get to Rockville (where there is a Saturday School center).

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Why are there 4 locations in Silver Spring and no locations in Poolesville, Bethesda or Potomac? Are there no struggling students in those areas? Or is the idea that they are supposed to pay for their own private tutoring?

Silver Spring is HUGE and much more densely populated than Bethesda. As a result, it may take as long for me to get to Blair as for you to get to Rockville (where there is a Saturday School center).

Right. Saturday School has 12 locations: Burtonsville (Paint Branch HS), Clarksburg (Clarksburg HS), Gaithersburg (Gaithersburg HS), Gaithersburg/Montgomery Village (Watkins Mill HS), Germantown (Northwest HS), Kensington (Einstein HS), Rockville towards Olney (Magruder HS), Rockville towards Aspen Hill (Rockville HS), Sandy Spring/Olney (Sherwood HS), Glenmont/Silver Spring (Kennedy HS), Four Corners/Silver Spring (Blair HS), Colesville/White Oak/Silver Spring (Springbrook HS), Wheaton/Silver Spring (Loiederman MS). I think that's pretty good coverage.

I apologize if my Silver Spring locations are incorrect. As the PP says, "Silver Spring" is huge; it's most of the east county: https://ggwash.org/view/35759/how-did-silver-spring-get-its-boundaries-and-how-would-you-define-them

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Why not? They pay for speech therapists to go to CES JDS.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not? They pay for speech therapists to go to CES JDS.

Public school funds pay for certain services for all those who live (and pay taxes) in Montgomery County- this can include services offered by county employees at private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not? They pay for speech therapists to go to CES JDS.

Do the speech therapists work for CES JDS? No.