Cuts
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Anonymous
It’s not made up. But it’s not cuts. They just haven’t finalized school allocations yet so teachers have not yet been notified of what they are teaching. We were told sometime in June we will have an idea of what next year will look like at our school. |
Anonymous
That doesn't seem unreasonable. |
Anonymous
It’s not. It just makes people nervous for a possible change in assignment, which is understandable. |
Anonymous
It’s normal to not be told assignment until June. That’s per contract. While there hasn’t been some sort of public announcement, there has definitely been a change in staffing allocations and this was reported internally at many schools. |
Anonymous
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There are proposed cuts.
From the May 1st County Council Work Session Memo: Possible budget changes: The Interim Superintendent communicated possible areas where the budget could be adjusted below the level requested by the Board if needed to meet affordability levels set by the Council’s appropriation level. The letter identifies the following as possible approaches: -Class Size: The letter estimates that an increase in class size of one student would achieve savings of $10.5 million; excluding Title I schools from this increase would result in savings of $7.3 million. -Staff Development Teachers: The letter proposes a reduction of the current allocation of staff development teachers from a full position at every school to a 0.5 position at each school. MCPS estimates this would achieve a savings of $8.2 million; $6.1 million if Title I schools are exempted. - Central Services: The letter indicates that additional savings would have to be taken from central services, but does not specify further details. |
Anonymous
| Something doesn’t match up. Enrollment is shrinking but MCPS is spending much more per student even under the Elrich budget. |
Anonymous
That’s mostly going to be wages and salaries. They are rising to keep up with inflation. Plus the state mandated bump in pay by $10k per year for NBCT, boosted existing salaries and has stimulated a lot more teachers to seek certification. |
Anonymous
If you watched May 1 it's actually been stagnant, the issue is inflation and increasing costs of just about everything |
Anonymous
They are rising faster than inflation. |
Anonymous
I can only speak for elementary schools but I don't know what we would do without our SDT being full time. They literally do everything under the sun and keep our school functioning. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
While teachers do not need to be told of next year's assignments until the last day of the current school year per contract (ex you will be teaching 3 sections of Modern World History and 2 sections of AP Psychology) teachers do know what building they will be working in prior to the job fairs based on initial school allocations. With allocations changing at the school levels people are being transferred after being told they have a "job" next year in their current building and some staff are voluntarily transferring to other building only to be told that position no longer exists because of a new reduced allocation to the school. |
Anonymous
so basically it's made up to mislead people |
Anonymous
Maybe initially it was a rumor or misconstrued, but now MCPS is proposing cuts to reduce their budget to the County's Council threshold. They need to cut about 6 million. One proposal is to increase class size by one student, and the other proposal is to cut all staff development teachers from full-time to part-time. This was discussed in the May 1st county council work session. |
Anonymous
Everyone making less than $85k is getting a pay raise greater than inflation, and that’s before you consider the step increases or the $10k boost for NBCT (for those eligible). |