Pursuant to HCPSS MPIA Request #2023-008, and the program titled Race to be Human at Centennial High School, please provide the following: 1.) A list of any and all fees paid or contractually due in the future to the vendor (inluding the original vendor Indiflix, and its successor company, Impact) of RTBH to date; 2.) A list of all teacher stipends, discretionary funds and/or overtime hours and pay used in the HCPSS process of the review, discussion and implementation of the RTBH program; 3.) A list of total school hours scheduled/dedicated or to be scheduled/dedicated and planned for the presenation of Race to Be Human - including all optional CHS "Eagle time", and any additional time created by changing to a One hour Delay or Two Hour delay schedules; 4.) If 2 cannot be provided, please provide the current schedule and schedule changes for any time to be allocated to RTBH; and 5.) any communication to or from Principal or staff regarding options for students to opt out of the RTBH program.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes
Responsive to this request, please see the record referenced below. Please note, under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Seventeenth Edition of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual created by Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General, an agency is only obligated to produce existing records. No list of all teacher stipends, discretionary funds and/or overtime hours and pay used in the HCPSS process of the review, discussion and implementation of the Race to Be Human program exist, however Centennial staff indicate three staff members working this summer on school improvement planning for the 2022-2023 school year were compensated for approximately four hours of work totaling $100. Additional time has been used by the school’s leadership team to discuss multiple topics related to school improvement during the regular day of which no record reflects the specific time spent nor were staff provided additional compensation. Similarly, while no list of school hours scheduled/dedicated to the Race to Be Human program exists, Centennial staff indicates it will likely include nine sessions totaling approximately five hours. Additionally, no communications from Centennial staff have been created or shared as of this date regarding options for students to opt out of the social-emotional learning initiative which will include materials from the Race to Be Human program.
The prior MPIA response contains an email correspondence reflecting the fees paid to Indieflix for two programs including Race to Be Human totaling $7,750.00. No future amounts are due.
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