DCPS budget cuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JR is cutting around 20 positions. Most of the cut positions are currently unfilled.

One teacher per department on average will lose a job is my guess. It’ll be the newest hire or the uncertified person.

Thanks for this info. How many filled positions do they anticipate cutting?

[Anonymous]

Cut all the staff at Central who implement the stupid district-wide professional development days. Plenty of resources already exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cut all the staff at Central who implement the stupid district-wide professional development days. Plenty of resources already exist.

OMG so much this. There are always new people showing and reading from slides at PD days while they work remotely. At least half of them have never been inside a school! 🙄

[Anonymous]

All the Race and Diversity central office types who get to read books all day… ( lol, I don’t know what they do…)

Those ppl along with counselors and psychologists should be task on helping out AT Risk youth who are still in school and causing problems in our schools. They should also
Have to work with the kids who are in jail. And the ones who are wrecking havoc on the city. The connection has not been made. They should also be on special teams who partner with these neighborhood programs tasked to help the youth. We need a ppl pipeline and connections that are linked to their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cut all the staff at Central who implement the stupid district-wide professional development days. Plenty of resources already exist.

OMG so much this. There are always new people showing and reading from slides at PD days while they work remotely. At least half of them have never been inside a school! 🙄

+1

[Anonymous]

Walls is cutting a foreign language and performance arts teachers? What language?

[Anonymous]

More than likely Chinese

[Anonymous]

Our ES is cutting 7 non-teaching positions, foreign language, 3 K-5 classroom positions, and eliminating 1 PK section - so around 13 positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cut all the staff at Central who implement the stupid district-wide professional development days. Plenty of resources already exist.

OMG so much this. There are always new people showing and reading from slides at PD days while they work remotely. At least half of them have never been inside a school! 🙄

Ha, those are usually your fellow teachers; they always guilt me into doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn't share this info very freely. You have to dig and rely on word of mouth. I think we are losing some paras but am not sure (and this don't want to list the school of im wrong).

Do you not want subs and lunches or to replace the vacant teachers? The Central Office is already wildly understaffed and they support our teachers who support our kids. You are thinking all wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn't share this info very freely. You have to dig and rely on word of mouth. I think we are losing some paras but am not sure (and this don't want to list the school of im wrong).

Do you not want subs and lunches or to replace the vacant teachers? The Central Office is already wildly understaffed and they support our teachers who support our kids. You are thinking all wrong.

Ok, so lunch contracting takes a couple of people to manage the contracts.

My school finds the subs.

The PD dept, the dept that makes the assignments with all those extra-detailed instructions, the dept that mandates online math programs, the people who pursue partnerships like XQ, the people who write Ferebee's insipid emails, etc etc -- they can all go!

And the leadership of DCIAA should be fired and replaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn't share this info very freely. You have to dig and rely on word of mouth. I think we are losing some paras but am not sure (and this don't want to list the school of im wrong).

Do you not want subs and lunches or to replace the vacant teachers? The Central Office is already wildly understaffed and they support our teachers who support our kids. You are thinking all wrong.

I have a person at central whose job is to check in with me and other MTSS leads for 30 mins a week to see how our intervention is going. We have city year teens running intervention groups bc we don't have enough staff. But sure, more central office people.

Also, i haven't gotten on my call in 2 months, and this role wasn't filled for the first 5 months. Not sure how essential it is

[Anonymous]

I work in the central office--no it's not "wildly understaffed" but there are vacancies of course. Are there some unnecessary positions? Maybe--depends on whose opinion is being offered up.

[Anonymous]

LEAP coaches can go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn't share this info very freely. You have to dig and rely on word of mouth. I think we are losing some paras but am not sure (and this don't want to list the school of im wrong).

Do you not want subs and lunches or to replace the vacant teachers? The Central Office is already wildly understaffed and they support our teachers who support our kids. You are thinking all wrong.

Central office does not support me in any way. I find many of them to be intrusive busybodies and have a profound lack of understanding how a classroom operates.