FACT CHECK: @mocoboe spouse says, KID Museum has "shown significant results year over year." But MCPS hasn't evaluated results, they've only counted number of students.

Board of Education member Scott Joftus' spouse KID Museum founder and executive director Cara Lesser says that KID Museum "partnership has been evaluated every year both by MCPS Office of Shared Accountability and by external evaluators and we've been showing significant results year over year." 

The Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, MD filed a Maryland Public Information Act request for: 

• MCPS Office of Shared Accountability evaluations of MOCO KIDSCO dba KID Museum since 2015

We received just two documents from MCPS in response to this request. Both documents are shown below. 

The documents from MCPS show only two years of data on the numbers of students that attended KID Museum.  The 2022 data brief was only tasked with reporting numbers of students, nothing else. There has been no actual verification of performance by MCPS. 

The 2021 data brief was tasked with reporting numbers of students and number of classrooms implementing the KID Museum curriculum and nothing else.  

For reference, MCPS has about 33,000 students in Grades 2, 3 and 4.  The 2022 data brief from MCPS shows that KID Museum served just 1,079 Grade 2-4 students in one of their programs, and 2,942 students in a summer program.

MCPS middle schools have an enrollment of about 36,000 students.  The 2022 data brief from MCPS shows that KID Museum served just 1,450 middle school students.  

In Fiscal Year 2022, the Board of Education paid KID Museum $1,707,632 and served just 5,471 students out of 69,000 students in the targeted grades.

Kid Museum Data Brief _21-2... by Parents' Coalition of Montg...

KID Museum Data Brief _v.15... by Parents' Coalition of Montg...