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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PTA runs the planetarium with parent volunteers at our school since[b] teacher can’t teach it due to being PTA funded and built[/b]. The PTA used to run the school play out of Adventure theater with a Director before Adventure theater reorganize. Some PTAs are better than others[/quote]

Yes, PTA cannot pay a teacher to run an after-school activity.  BUT, the workaround is that parents can set up an [b]Educational Foundation[/b] and that can give grants to teachers and MCPS staff to teach/sponsor activities.  In fact, they can even fund teachers and improvements at school.   For example Pyle Middle School in Bethesda sponsors amazing enrichment and after/before school programs for students.   And they mostly do it via the Educational Foundation.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/pylems/pef/
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/pylems/underconstruction/

One ex-Pyle mom also formed  FLEX ACADEMIES.  A private company that puts together a menu of after school activities run by private vendors - https://flexacademies.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Pyle.pdf.

You can directly contact these companies and the PTA can invite them to run classes (fee based) after school and publicize it.  We got around the DEI concerns by asking the vendor to give us one scholarship seat for every 12 paid students.

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Middle schools across the county already offer extensive after-school activities for free. [/quote]

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