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[quote=Anonymous]Please read below.  MCPS is being bilked of millions of dollars from its vendors. Someone needs to follow the money here and expose these people.

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 I do not understand why the smallest thing costs so much in MCPS.[b] [color=red]I am a PTSA mom[/color] [/b]and very often we are directly funding stuff at the school and it only costs couple of hundred dollars. [b]If the same item is ordered via the MCPS vendors it costs 10 times more. Why? We need a table that will cost MCPS around $800 but PTSA can buy it for them for $200, Do people realize that there are entrenched vendors in MCPS that cost thousands of dollars for very basic services?[/b]

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[b][color=red]I'm a teacher in MCPS[/color][/b] and the bolded is maddening to me. We get around $200/year for supplies individually and have to order through the MCPS warehouse. [b]The items are marked up in a ridiculous way. A 3 hole puncher costs around $40 when I can get a similar one from Amazon for $12. Everything from pens to binders costs an arm and a leg through the warehouse.[/b] We don't get money from PTA for supplies (high FARMS school), so the $200 doesn't stretch very far. I hit up the back to school sales every summer and stock up on crayons, markers, scissors, glue etc. I've asked if I can provide receipts for those items and be reimbursed from the $200 supply budget and I'm always told "no", that it all has to be ordered directly from the warehouse. There's something definitely very fishy going on.[/quote][/quote]

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