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Re: Teacher Stipends
QUESTION(s):
a) does your local or state school district provide stipends
Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the US pays no stipends for robotics coaches. Principles have some discretion and could fund them if they wanted to. But the principal knows I will do it for free, even as I am trying to figure out how to pay my own bills.
b) if so what are the parameters, hour worked, stipend paid, state or local funding ? N/A
Los Angeles Unified School District is not anti-robotics just clueless. Its just not on their radar. We have talked to our board member and our supervisor a little but were they really listening?
LAUSD has very few schools in robotics, just 2 years ago only 2 FRC teams. The vast majority of teams in Los Angeles County are from private schools or other smaller school districts.
We will have to keep working on them.
All of the funding for the team and the two classes come from fund-raising and grants, or my pocket. OUR ROBOTICS TEAM supports the two classes. When football sells tickets the money goes back into athletics, so no academics are supported, unlike robotics.
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