Dinowitz asks how much professional learning goes to contractors

How much of that, let's say just the professional learning, for example, how much of that goes to private for-profit contractors or contracts versus in-house?

So that professional learning budget is for professional learning and curriculum and resource development.

So the majority of it would go to partners like Mikva Challenge, who supports our project Soapbox Work.

You may be familiar with that.

And then also our professional learning sessions we often do in collaboration with cultural institutions around the city.

And so funding for those, for where those sessions are being held and for space for that.

And then for curriculum and resource development.

So I can't break down for you right now, like how much is spent on each of those things, but all of that funding is for the professional learning.

There's separate funding for the creation of like our materials that get used in professional learning, if that makes sense.

So to ask in a different way, how much money goes to...

Are you spending money on private companies to come into schools and train teachers?

Zero dollars and zero cents.

Mikva Challenge is the, to the best of my knowledge, and I will double check this in my budget, the organization that we pay to provide professional learning because Project Soapbox is their product.

The rest of our professional learning is provided by our nine-person civics for all team.

Okay.

And I'll share, speaking with some of the teachers, they were very grateful that their work, they would get per session for their work, whether it was like the working on the weekends or

turnkeying the learning that they did.

And, you know, it's less expensive to hire our very own teachers.

But when they get that money, that's really recognizing their work.