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I've been following this conversation and never felt like the assumption is schools are charging more than cost for the afterschool programs they're delivering.  The assumption I had (and assumed was a given) is that schools have choices about *which* afterschool programming/vendors/models they use, and some schools choose more expensive models.  Somewhere upthread someone did say that one school openly charges a bit more for the aftercare and uses the extra for other school costs, but I wouldn't know any details about that or if it's true.  I assumed thought hat mainly, just like lunch vendors, schools have choices and some question whether the more expeonsve model is the best model.[/quote]

Okay, now I see where you are going, and that makes a lot of sense.  There seem to be three main drivers of cost:

1.  Staff salaries
2.  Staffing levels
3.  Extras like field trips, high priced extra workers, expensive equipment.

I don't know exactly how much aftercare workers make, but I think it's a pretty safe assumption that they don't make that much, certainly not considering the costs of living in DC.  And most of these programs don't really have that many of the "extras", it's not like they are paying some speaker $5,000 a pop to come in and do an assembly or something like that, and they don't have crazy expensive technology like huge printers or high end video cameras.  So really it's primarily about staffing levels, right?  Can someone talk about ballpark figures of number of workers to kids you see in aftercare?  What seem like reasonable numbers?  Or am I missing some other big thing that could be cut to make things cheaper?[/quote]

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