DCPS imposing new insurance requirements on outside vendors = loss of external programming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:from the vendor side, for those wondering if the change is really that expensive... it is! The new insurance requirements cost a vendor about $5,000 additional per year. All vendors already have insurance (usually about $3k per year), but these additional requirements are extremely expensive and onerous. It is why my program will not work with DCPS anymore... we wouldn't even break even!

We all lose from this. DCPS doesn't know how to solve problems -- they can only add to the ever-growing list of rules and barriers to prevent anyone from doing anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was an issue when an independent teacher wanted to teach sign language in an afterschool class at our midle school. But she wasn't affiliated with aftercare and thus did not have the insurance needed to use one of the empty classrooms after school. the activity was going to limited to the school students only. It was very frustrating

Maybe I am reading this wrong, but if it would be limited to school students only then what is the issue? Who else would be coming into a school to take lessons? I don't think schools should be used for something involving outside participants, especially if aftercare is in the building still.

It was school students only. It’s so frustrating. I’m fairly certain the teacher was a parent of one the students as well. Programming can only go through the aftercare vendor and they weren’t interested.