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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"the charter only received the % funding of 5 year olds per class- 37%. "

Hunh??? How is this not giving "full funding" for 5s? If about 1/3 of the class is 5 year olds in the program, wouldn't that be how many kids MoCo should pay for? I 100% think we need charters in MoCo (primarily as a MS and HS alternative) but I don't think that charters can be an excuse to try to bill MoCo for educating kids that would not normally be in the public school system - such as 3s and non-FARMS 4s. To try to argue that MCPS pulled a fast one on the school by not paying for the preschoolers is just nuts. the school could have chosen to simply have the younger ages be paying families and the 5s and up be charter kids - the school was the one who insisted charter kids had to start at 3. The only fault MCPS has here is that they did not demand that the school do more to explain how in the world they planned to fundraiser such a huge portion of its budget. [/quote]

You clearly don't understand how funding works. MOCO only funded 37% of the per pupil funding for 5 year olds because the 5 year olds only make up 37% of the mixed age class. So if MOCO gives approx. $13,900 per child funding for 5 year olds for kindergarten, you have no problem if they only give 37% of $13,900 for 5 year olds to the charter? The charter did NOT receive 100% of the funding for 5 year olds. No one is arguing that MOCO pulled a fast one by not paying for 3's and 4's. What MOCO did was not fully fund the 5 year olds. [/quote]

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