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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its amazing what they can waste money on and then choose to get rid of the VA that benefits some students.[/quote]

There are very few students left in virtual. It would be far more efficient to have a state-wide virtual option.[/quote]

+1. But the VA proponents always come up with 100 reasons why that isn't a good idea.[/quote]

We do not have an educational services at the state level so, if they get rid of it, there will be no virtual program.  Plenty of other things to cut, starting with the kid museum.  Why is mcps funding nonprofits.  [/quote]

Maybe if more parents were advocating for it, they would.[/quote]

The state is not in the education business.  the county is.  No one is going to advocate it for the state level but you.  So, please go ahead.  [/quote]

Please Google state run virtual public education.  Many states offer this so yes access to virtual public education very much is a state issue. States have the ability and the funding control to run this so all Maryland students could have access to a free virtual option.  MCPS was shortsighted  to try and run their own versus lobby Maryland to run its own as other states already do.

The Virtual Academy in MCPS was funded my ESSR funds.  There are no longer ESSR funds since that program has ended.  This means MCPS either has to discontinue the programs it ran using ESSR funds or  find new funds.  To find new funds it must cut other programs.  The money that comes from the state per child is not enough to fund virtual academy so it is not a case of simply using the per child funds to run the VA.   Also keep in mind  the 40million deficit in the employee plan that has to be paid.

MCPS spent poorly and now must make lots of cuts.  Hopefully they downsize central office, stop funding one offs — like the museum,— cut programs not enough students use to justify the huge cost like LIM, cut programs that are expensive and do not show results like year round school, and put more money toward paying teachers, paraeducators and other staff who work directly with students a competitive wage to best attract talent.  Until MCPS can do the basics  they need to stop experimenting with niche costly programs.

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