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[quote=Anonymous]Ex-PTA person here.  Yes, you can bring EC to the school. You need to understand what resources are available to the school. There are mainly several kinds of activities…

MCPS funded-

For some activities, MCPS will provide a small stipend to teachers to run it. It is up to the teacher to step up to take that responsibility.  To find out what those activities are at ES, MS and HS level…

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/ersc/employees/timekeepers/eca_handbook_current.pdf

PTA run -
Requires parent donations and labor. A good example is scholastic book fairs. But a well funded PTA can co-sponsor many events.

Third Party Run-
You invite a third party vendor to have a menu of fee based programs for the students. Pyle middle school (W school) in Bethesda  engages a company (formed by a Bethesda parent ) to run its program. I think it is called Flex Academy.

Our school was a poor school so we did not hire the third part vendor, instead we went to the providers directly to ask them to run their classes at our school. Since we wanted to encourage equity and diversity, we decided to give scholarships to FARMS and ESOL students if they were interested in joining the program. We did not have any takers but we did not face any opposition for having these fees based programs.

MoCo funded- 
I think MoCo runs programs in poor schools. It is worth a look. The program in our school was called ‘Excel Beyond the Bell’ . MoCo rec dept ran the program. Worth a look to see if your school qualifies. It was an extremely popular program.

Education Foundation funded- 
If you can start an education foundation at your school through donations, you can bypass all the stringent MCPS, PTA and MoCo rules and directly give grants to teachers to run educational programs after school. Creative writing, poetry, math and science bowls etc. all the W schools have such foundations. Google it.  All of this work has been done by interested parents. If you care about your kids then you have to find ways to make these things happen in your school. 
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