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Title III: MCPS spends most grant on salaries, targets supports for emergent multilingual learners
Summary
Tamara Hewlett and MCPS staff described Title III funding for emergent multilingual learners: roughly $3.9 million for FY25, a per‑pupil grant equivalency near $123 per counted student, and major allocations for salaries, contractual services and materials to support language development.
Tamara Hewlett, Director of the Department of English Learners and Multilingual Education, told the Fiscal Management Committee that MCPS's Title III grant for emerging multilingual learners (EMLs) is smaller than Title I but funds targeted supports including instructional specialists, contractual professional learning and materials.
Hewlett and staff said the FY25 Title III allocation (state pass‑through) funded 31,706 enrolled EMLs plus about 401 nonpublic participants for a counted total of 32,107; dividing the grant to a per‑student value yields about $123.07 per counted student and a total grant near $3.9 million for the…
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