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Montgomery County council pushes for unified data and signed MOU to map after‑school services
Summary
Council members heard agency presentations on the out‑of‑school time network and pressed for a clear plan to sign a county‑MCPS MOU, adopt shared program metrics, and fund a dedicated data capacity to track who participates in after‑school programs and where gaps remain.
Council Vice President and Chair Jiwanda convened a joint work session of three County Council committees to review progress building a coordinated out‑of‑school time (OST) system and to seek concrete next steps on a pending data‑sharing memorandum of understanding (MOU).
The Council heard presentations from the Montgomery County Collaboration Council, the Maryland Out of School Time Network, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Department of Recreation about network growth, program offerings and the county’s new data‑collection pilot. Sydney Wilson Hunter, Director of Programs at the Collaboration Council, told members the advisory group has grown to 17 organizations and the OST provider network to more than 30 partners but “the Collaboration Council holds no authority to mandate participation at any level for this work,” and it lacks centralized capacity to collect and clean countywide OST data.
Why it matters: Council members said they need a single, auditable source of data to answer the basic policy question the Council has repeatedly asked: of the county’s school‑age population, who is being served, where programs operate, and which students are…
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