Some rules have changed. For years, some PTAs and HSAs have used their own funds to hire staff for the school, such as teacher aides. DCPS is now requiring a security check for all people who will work in any school. School organizations will continue to be able to hire additional staff, but with new regulations governing that hiring, including going through the DCPS Human Resources Office, whose past incompetence caused parents to do their own hiring in the first place. Schools can use those federal funds to lower class size and individualize instruction.
Some rules are unchanged.
School organizations which hire employees or provide funding for programs at the school must remember to keep scrupulous records and file all tax forms for those employees. DCPS is now allocating resources to schools by giving schools the money instead of prescribing staff configurations. LSRTs must allocate those funds to meet student needs and raise achievement. If principals who have used those resources flexibly are censured, it will be even more difficult to achieve successful school based management. Mr. Moss creatively met his schools' and his students' needs and was censured.