DCPS Central Office Cuts
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Anonymous
| I’m hearing that 40% of Central Office was laid off this week. What actually happened with budget cuts? |
Anonymous
| 40%?? Not likely |
Anonymous
| Tell us more. Are most of the coaches gone b/c of funding? |
Anonymous
| Lol, totally false. |
Anonymous
| If only. |
Anonymous
| It was 6%, maybe you’re thinking of the number of people. |
Anonymous
Coaches are school based |
Anonymous
Not ECE |
Anonymous
That’s the one grade level at DCPS that does not have school based coaches. A friend of mine works on the ECE Team at Central and she said that her position was cut this week. She said that the Central ECE team will now only have 11 coaches to serve 80 schools. |
Anonymous
| Also, some of the SPED programs have Central Office based coaches. |
Anonymous
The reason why DCPS ECE programs are high quality across the board is due to the robust coaching of ECE teachers at every schools. Families should prepare to see the quality decline this upcoming school year. |
Anonymous
My child’s ECE teacher was fantastic and definitely did not subscribe to DCPS coaching. I think many are veteran teachers and I trust their ability and knowledge. |
Anonymous
40 people is 6% of central office? It really does need to be reduced. |
Anonymous
Individual teachers don’t “subscribe.” There’s an ECE Coach assigned to each school. That said, ours visited every 3-4 weeks and seemed nice enough, but not much more. For schools with long time ECE teachers or even just long time ECE lead teachers who functionally serve as internal coaches, I cannot imagine this will make much difference. |
Anonymous
It will make the biggest difference in schools that have the newest teachers/highest turnover, which tend to be the poorest schools with the more difficult kids. Who yet again lose out and are less likely to be prepared for kindergarten. |