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Expanded strategic partnerships (e.g. STEM opportunities with the KID Museum) was listed as "applied for grant but not yet awarded" in May.
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2021/20210514/20210514_3.pdf

As of June, it seems to have been awarded as part of a $112,233,764 MCPS COVID-19 Relief Funding budget, but didn't list the contract amount?
https://kid-museum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/KID-Museum-Expansion-Announcement_FINAL.pdf

See also:
https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/tv/mcps-moment-kid-museum-partnership/
https://www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/mcps-and-kid-museum-expand-partnership-with-a-new-maker-learning-curriculum/

How the heck does Kid Museum count as COVID funding???[/quote]
 
Because attendance fell drastically during COVID so they had virtually no revenue. Is it not completely obvious??[/quote]

Then why do they get their funding from MCPS? Get their own covid cash!
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Is there a criteria for COVID funding?  Doesn't it have to be related to COVID in some way?  There's no way that Kid Museum would qualify.  It's not even part of MCPS and there was no existing program pre-COVID, right?

I am so sick of the board wasting taxpayer money this way.  Shouldn't the police or feds do something about this??[/quote]
The part that bothers me about this is what the money is paying for. If people are not going the COVID $ is funding leases and salaries (his wife and his own income) for a resource that no one is using. Why not just close up for a couple years and reopen later? Why do tax payers need to subsidize his family's income so his wife can effectively maintain a no-show job?[/quote]
Why did any organization get covid funding? The idea was to keep them solvent through the worst, shut down times so they'd be there on the other end.

Most companies that shut down don't reopen. That way would have been a bloodbath for America, even if there was a lot of fraud and waste involved.[/quote]
This museum had just opened and barely had any operations before COVID. Nice hyperbole though. [/quote]

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