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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a late bus at asfs, you can only take it if you are frl and an ell who is at least a grade behind in both math and reading.  At asfs at least, it’s not for enrichment, it’s for kids who need extra one on one tutoring.  Money comes out of a [b]principals discretionary fund.[/b]
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Funded by the highly-resourced PTA. High fr/l schools don’t have a PTA-funded “Principal’s Discretionary Fund.” It’s admirable that ASFS is using their money in this way. However, unless APS is funding such for all schools that don’t have well-resourced PTAs, it’s problematic from an equity standpoint. [/quote]
Quoted poster.  There is a "discretionary fund" line item in every school's budget.  I think its under "Other" as a budget line item for each school.  Its not a large amount of money.  The ASFS principal uses it to fund a single late bus.  She worked out an arrangement with red top to avoid having a morning early bus (the same kids who have afterschool tutoring have morning tutoring too I believe).  People really like to rag on her, but I think this is one of the examples of where she really works hard to make sure none of her kids are left behind.

Its not funded by the PTA, though in all fairness, she probably only has this money to spend on stuff like this because the PTA funds and organizes collaborations to fund other things (like maintaining the courtyard and aquariums).

So it is an equity issue, kind of, but I think there are larger equity issues (if Key really has a late bus for SCA and enrichment, that's messed up).  [/quote]

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