Today at the Montgomery County Council the KID Museum in Bethesda will be asking for over $5 million from Montgomery County's budget. The packet for today's meeting is shown below. Former superintendent Joshua Starr's wife is the spokesperson for the museum. Here is what she had to say about the request.
...But the nonprofit has outgrown the space, KID Museum spokeswoman Emma Starr said. The museum is currently serving 55,000 people each year at the library, but would like to increase that total to 250,000, she said.
“Right now, we are excited about the proposed partnership,” Starr said, adding the county and Montgomery County Public Schools are supportive of the museum’s mission. “We like to say that we have a shared vision of what’s important in innovation, education and diversity. We share this vision of bringing impactful learning experiences to kids.”
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/County-City-of-Rockville-Mull-Plan-To-Buy-Office-Building-as-New-Home-for-KID-Museum/
Fortunately, Montgomery County is flush with cash and our public schools are not in need of any funding. We can spend money on a museum (is it a museum?). Too bad there aren't any free (actual) museums in D.C. for public school students to visit.
Still spending money like there's no tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThompson Twinbrook LLC. Oh those shell LLCs. We're shocked, shocked. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/nyregion/cuomo-percoco-howe-corruption.html
ReplyDeletesounds like outsourcing science curriculum.... Dont do science labs just send the kiddies there.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there will be the huge cry for money for the field trips to support Mrs. Starr's museum. See Strathmore and that huge "for the kids" county project became a line item on the MCPS Operating Budget.
DeleteYep- that is my point.
DeleteI am a pitchman for the county
DeleteAnd I like a hefty load
Asking for another budget overload
I hear you pitch in the wire
I can hear you through the whine
And the budget is still on the line.
http://www.cbf.org/document-library/financial-documents/2013-irs-form-990.pdf Over 200,000 in salary and benefits to the director to manage an educational non-profit that charges MCPS students instructional fees to visit the River downtown.
DeleteWhy don't they feed the kids first:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/MCPS-Earns-C-Grade-on-Healthy-School-Food-Report-Card/