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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vendors come and go at SSMA as they do not get paid with regularity and have the option to terminate their services with SSMA. I wonder if the guides have been having payment issues as long as some of the vendors[/quote]

If I read this correctly, your suggesting the payroll vendor didn't get paid and so they didn't execute payroll. This seems like one plausible reason people didn't get paid. For example, a couple of months ago, everyone at Shining Stars got a letter from their CareFirst that Shining Stars wasn't paying their portion of healthcare.

The letter read: "This notice is to inform you that your health insurance provided by Shining Stars Monetssori Academy PCS through DC Health Link may be terminated due to non-payment by your employer." I was scared until I found out everyone at SSMA got the same letter. But still...

See, the ED has to go in and personally approve all payments to vendors. And for some reason or another, she always stalls and never pays on time. Vendors get sick of that and stop working with Shining Stars. My guess is that this is just another sign of the ED's disorganization. She should just let someone else do this, if she can't get it done on time. People depend on these payments. But she wants control of everything.

For me, it's stuff like this that makes it clear the board at Shining Stars isn't doing its job or they would have stepped in.

Don't be fooled by the new grievance process either. No one in her right mind will use it because it will put a target on their back. Because the SSMA board won't do anything and the Charter Board won't do anything either, the only thing parents and staff can do is go public and shame SSMA into making the right changes.[/quote]

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