On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, the Montgomery County Council held a hearing on various MCPS and pre-school programs. One of the topics was the very private MCPS Charter School that is being funded by taxpayers. It's supposed to be a public charter school, and it is not supposed to be run by a private organization. But, this is Montgomery County and there is no oversight of this school, and a private organization is running the school.
The BOE will hand this private charter school $694,771 for Fiscal Year 2014 with absolutely no oversight as to the operations of this supposed public school.
Listen to what Councilmember Valerie Ervin has to say when she finds out that the Council was given no information about this program for this April 24th hearing.
From the Council Packet prepared for this hearing:
• Community Montessori Charter School: In FY13, the Board of Education budgeted $274,242 for a Community Montessori Charter SchooL It was expected that the school would serve 70 three and four-year old children. Because information about the program was not available prior to packet publication, the Committees may be interested in receiving an update from MCPS staff about the program
Well, one thing is clear about Crossway—whatever is happening in MCPS (good, bad or indifferent) that isn’t stopping them from applying to open a separate second charter school in DC. Click here to see what’s they are doing in DC.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dcpcsb.org/School-Leaders/Start-a-Charter-School.aspx
http://dcpcsb.org/data/files/2013_Applications/Crossway-Community-DC-Montessori-PCS-Application_312013.pdf
MCPS is not funding the 3 year olds at all.
ReplyDeletePlease explain. Show us the budget. Let's see how this public school is being run. We know the school is funded to have a principal, but they don't. Where is the money going that should be paying for a principal?
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