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Dotneko
08-11-2023, 09:53 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks

Number 10 GI
08-11-2023, 10:00 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks

I would imagine that if your friends contacted the school all their questions would be answered. Most of the answers you will get here will be guesses or assumptions.

Bill14564
08-11-2023, 10:03 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks

Contact the school and ask about fees as well as any tuition.

The Charter schools are part of the public school system and are funded with state taxes and local school taxes. I don't believe there is any tuition required to attend.

Kenswing
08-11-2023, 10:26 AM
There is no tuition. One parent does have to work for The Villages or one of their affiliated companies. There is also a required amount of volunteer time that a parent must put in.

Dotneko
08-11-2023, 10:30 AM
There is no tuition. One parent does have to work for The Villages or one of their affiliated companies. There is also a required amount of volunteer time that a parent must put in.

WOW - no way!! Thanks

Rainger99
08-11-2023, 11:05 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks

Charter schools are public schools. No tuition.

All about Florida Charter Schools (https://www.floridacharterschools.org/all-about-florida-charter-schools#:~:text=No%2C%20charter%20schools%20are%20 public,and%2For%20after%20school%20care).

charlie1
08-11-2023, 11:08 AM
There is no tuition. One parent does have to work for The Villages or one of their affiliated companies. There is also a required amount of volunteer time that a parent must put in.

Just a minor clarification to the above. One parent has to work for The Villages, or a business located in The Villages. Does not have to be an affiliated company. This allows people working in restaurants, grocery stores, hair salons, etc. the right to send their children to the Villages Charter schools. Based on first hand experience of one of our service providers, this is STRICTLY enforced. When a spouse who worked in the Villages decided to take a job outside the Villages, they were informed their children would not longer be able to attend the Charter School. The other spouse got a part time job in a restaurant in the Villages so the children would not have to change schools.

crash
08-12-2023, 06:07 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks
My grand daughters go there it has no tuition and an 8 dollar a day for after school care to 6 pm. School lets out at 2:45 so if they are still there you pay the after school care fee.

Singerlady
08-12-2023, 06:53 AM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks
Perhaps a private school is what your friend needs.

OhioBuckeye
08-12-2023, 06:54 AM
If they have children, I hope mom or dad are planning on working in TV, remember no children, unless they changed the rules there!

Bill14564
08-12-2023, 06:57 AM
If they have children, I hope mom or dad are planning on working in TV, remember no children, unless they changed the rules there!

No children where? Middleton is family housing (not a 55+ community) and has no restriction on children.

phylt
08-12-2023, 07:20 AM
We saw the TV video re the new Charter School in Middleton. Simply amazing. So proud of the developer & fam to cover all costs for the schools. They should be commended for this effort. And an strong indication how they will continue building south. ...we may be a suburb of Orlando sometime - or be linked with Disneyworld. The Villages Land....

Bill14564
08-12-2023, 07:33 AM
We saw the TV video re the new Charter School in Middleton. Simply amazing. So proud of the developer & fam to cover all costs for the schools. They should be commended for this effort. And an strong indication how they will continue building south. ...we may be a suburb of Orlando sometime - or be linked with Disneyworld. The Villages Land....

The Developer may have covered the initial costs to build the schools but there is a large sum of money being paid by Sumter County to lease the Charter schools. "If we build it, they will buy it."

Nothing underhanded about this but nothing too philanthropic either. Just business and marketing. Will benefit all of us over time.

NotGolfer
08-12-2023, 07:47 AM
WOW - no way!! Thanks

BUT if that parent quits the job or is fired....the student and his/her parents are notified and they will need to enroll somewhere else.

nancyre
08-12-2023, 07:48 AM
Please take a look at other family communities in FL, school taxes increased dramatically when they needed to build schools. Bonds issued and the servicing of those bonds raised the school taxes ALOT. So yes in order to have workers in the area they built the schools but there is not a huge bond and a massive increase in taxes to get them built.

Rodneysblue
08-12-2023, 07:50 AM
My grand daughters go there it has no tuition and an 8 dollar a day for after school care to 6 pm. School lets out at 2:45 so if they are still there you pay the after school care fee.

Yes, ASP is extra but well worth it. Help with homework and other activities. We use to pay $6 a day per child when are children were young, that was 20 years ago.

Egandi
08-12-2023, 08:21 AM
The Charter School website has a list of the “affiliated” companies of the Villages. And yes, one parent must either work for the Villages or one of the listed companies. The third option is for one of the parents to open their own business in the Villages.

Bill14564
08-12-2023, 08:38 AM
Please take a look at other family communities in FL, school taxes increased dramatically when they needed to build schools. Bonds issued and the servicing of those bonds raised the school taxes ALOT. So yes in order to have workers in the area they built the schools but there is not a huge bond and a massive increase in taxes to get them built.

The school board is proposing a tax increase this year. I believe it will be an increase of 10% but I'm not sure of the exact number. If it is 10% on top of an increased appraisal then it could start to look like real money. Probably not ALOT that you have seen in other areas but still another increase we have to deal with.

Dond1959
08-12-2023, 10:12 AM
The Developer may have covered the initial costs to build the schools but there is a large sum of money being paid by Sumter County to lease the Charter schools. "If we build it, they will buy it."

Nothing underhanded about this but nothing too philanthropic either. Just business and marketing. Will benefit all of us over time.

Do you have a source for the “lease” comment. That is the first I have ever heard of that. The state and the county do provide a per student amount to the school like they do for any other student in the county. Is that what you’re talking about? If so it is not a lease payment. Not saying you’re wrong but if there is a “lease” payment in addition to the per student payment that is the first I have ever heard of it for any charter school.

Bill14564
08-12-2023, 11:07 AM
Do you have a source for the “lease” comment. That is the first I have ever heard of that. The state and the county do provide a per student amount to the school like they do for any other student in the county. Is that what you’re talking about? If so it is not a lease payment. Not saying you’re wrong but if there is a “lease” payment in addition to the per student payment that is the first I have ever heard of it for any charter school.

$7.9M line item in the school board budget for 23-24 (found on this page (https://www.sumter.k12.fl.us/Page/251))

Altavia
08-12-2023, 03:11 PM
The Developer may have covered the initial costs to build the schools but there is a large sum of money being paid by Sumter County to lease the Charter schools. "If we build it, they will buy it."

Nothing underhanded about this but nothing too philanthropic either. Just business and marketing. Will benefit all of us over time.

But the County would have never donel it. I can't imagine Sumter County ever approving bonds to construct those facilities.

I also suspect The Developer built those schools faster better and at a lower cost than would have happened under county control billing back to tax payers.

Bill14564
08-12-2023, 03:23 PM
But the County would have never donel it. I can't imagine Sumter County ever approving bonds to construct those facilities.

I also suspect The Developer built those schools faster better and at a lost cost than would have happened under county control billing back to tax payers.

That is most likely the case.

Topspinmo
08-12-2023, 04:24 PM
If they have children, I hope mom or dad are planning on working in TV, remember no children, unless they changed the rules there!

There are least three (insure building more way south?) area in village by design that allow children. So, yes can live in villages with children in area for them.

Topspinmo
08-12-2023, 04:27 PM
But the County would have never donel it. I can't imagine Sumter County ever approving bonds to construct those facilities.

I also suspect The Developer built those schools faster better and at a lost cost than would have happened under county control billing back to tax payers.

I thought the lottery was going to solve all the school problems? :22yikes:

JMintzer
08-12-2023, 04:33 PM
But the County would have never donel it. I can't imagine Sumter County ever approving bonds to construct those facilities.

I also suspect The Developer built those schools faster better and at a lost cost than would have happened under county control billing back to tax payers.

:agree::agree::agree:

Bogie Shooter
08-12-2023, 04:34 PM
I thought the lottery was going to solve all the school problems? :22yikes:

The claim in every state…………

PVR
08-12-2023, 05:54 PM
I have a friend interested in relocating. They asked about tuition to the charter school. I swear I looked through the website and application and couldnt find it anywhere.
I know about the requirements for employment.
Thanks
No charge to Qualified employees children

tophcfa
08-12-2023, 09:17 PM
The Charter School website has a list of the “affiliated” companies of the Villages. And yes, one parent must either work for the Villages or one of the listed companies. The third option is for one of the parents to open their own business in the Villages.

I think a grandparent working also qualifies students. A guy driving the shuttle for Workman told me a few years ago the only reason he was working was because it allowed his grandchildren to attend the Charter School. His daughter and grandchildren lived outside the Villages and she worked elsewhere.

OhioBuckeye
08-13-2023, 08:01 AM
Yes, I knew that, out by U.S. 301!

Bogie Shooter
08-13-2023, 09:40 AM
Yes, I knew that, out by U.S. 301!

:what: