In light of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Governor Baker issued an emergency Order on March 12, 2020, allowing public bodies greater flexibility in utilizing technology in the conduct of meetings under the Open Meeting Law. This committee makes a motion to accept this Executive Order for this meeting of the Finance Committee, on Sep 23, 2020. The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

For the second month in a row the state paid $227,399 as well as the additional payment of $24,763. It is detailed as "charter school reimbursements to cities". There has been no notification about any errors or overpayments. The DESE has not updated FY21 PPE data since the original projections from January. 

Current Enrollment is 208 due to unplanned attrition b/w 6th and 7th grade. As budget was made for 210 kids, we will continue every effort to recruit in 7th and 8th grade.
We will report enrollment to the state in October and DESE will update payments to the school in December.

Teaching Force is an exciting new program, bringing teaching methods from the Netherlands, which MCCPS is the first in the US to implement. The cost of the program would be $10K this year and $20K next year, subject to further negotiations.
For now, the $10K year 1 spend would be funded as follows: $2500 via a donation from the MCCPS Head of School, $2500 from the Fund, $3670 grant, leaving a $1,330 gap.  Grants will continue to be sought for this program.
Stipends for the staff to participate in this program will also need to be funded.

The School's Food Service Dept is up and running and providing meals for families that qualify for free breakfast & lunch, and also community families who want to take advantage of the program.
The school will be reimbursed $2.33 for each breakfast and $4.09 for each lunch served. We will run separate P&Ls to track the profitability of the Food Service program.

 

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