Sidwell Friends — an elite D.C. school with alumni including the children of presidents Obama, Clinton and Nixon — received a $5.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan. Its board said the goal was to avoid layoffs and furloughs. (wamu885)
In the letter to families, Sidwell board members said the K-12 school will use the loan to keep workers employed and pay for health insurance. The school expects to take a financial hit from lost tuition, fundraising and program fees.
Randa Tawil, who graduated from the school in 2005, said many small businesses could use the money more than Sidwell, where tuition runs upward of $44,000 a year."These are millionaires who are getting money to subsidize the workers who are teaching their children, in order for their children to get into elite institutions, in order for them to become millionaires," Tawil said."This is a place that reproduces an elite class of people in this country.
Hom-Diamond said the school stopped filling non-teaching positions and that more families are seeking financial support. The school learned it received the loan on April 14, about a week after it applied. Remes, who graduated from Sidwell in 1995, sits on the board of the School Justice Project, a non-profit that provides legal services to students with disabilities who are incarcerated.
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