What are the list of MCPS positions set to be laid off (assuming the budget cuts go through)?

[Anonymous]

Can someone share the list sent out today of which positions will be cut/which staff will be laid off, assuming the County Council vote goes the way it is expected to and MCPS has to fill a ~$100Mish hole?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone share the list sent out today of which positions will be cut/which staff will be laid off, assuming the County Council vote goes the way it is expected to and MCPS has to fill a ~$100Mish hole?

It was sent out to the people who need to know. If you weren't on the e-mail then you are just being nosy at this point.

[Anonymous]

College and Career Navigators, all media assistants, social workers, pupil personnel workers, too many to list all.

[Anonymous]

It's pretty much public: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8HANnsPlM7-xyvfma4H_0nRLQRYaKo/view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty much public: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8HANnsPlM7-xyvfma4H_0nRLQRYaKo/view

Thanks so much for sharing. And it will probably be worse than this, because this list only goes up to $90M in cuts but it looks like Council is planning on cutting $108M.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the biggest categories are:

- Media assistants
- College and career navigators
- Social workers
- English composition assistants
- Pupil personnel workers
- EML therapeutic counselors
- Family engagement specialists
- Special education resource teachers
- Staff development teachers
- And 220 middle school teachers

Total of 850 employees being laid off

[Anonymous]

This has been said sooo many times, but it’s obvious that central office positions should be the top priority when making these cuts. Are some positions necessary? Yes. Are the majority? Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Staff development positions for middle and HS can absolutely go. They are critical in elementary schools, but totally unnecessary in middle/HS.

[Anonymous]

Are they cutting any positions in central office?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the biggest categories are:

- Media assistants
- College and career navigators
- Social workers
- English composition assistants
- Pupil personnel workers
- EML therapeutic counselors
- Family engagement specialists
- Special education resource teachers
- Staff development teachers
- And 220 middle school teachers

Total of 850 employees being laid off

Oh no. The media assistant at my kids school does a lot. He also runs the 3D printing club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has been said sooo many times, but it’s obvious that central office positions should be the top priority when making these cuts. Are some positions necessary? Yes. Are the majority? Absolutely not.

Central Office only has a few hundred positions even available to cut from. There's no way they can take all of the 850+ job cuts from there. Yes, they are wasteful, and they should probably cut more than the 30ish Central Office positions currently on the list, but they can probably feasibly only cut 100 or so more max, possibly less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the biggest categories are:

- Media assistants
- College and career navigators
- Social workers
- English composition assistants
- Pupil personnel workers
- EML therapeutic counselors
- Family engagement specialists
- Special education resource teachers
- Staff development teachers
- And 220 middle school teachers

Total of 850 employees being laid off

Oh no. The media assistant at my kids school does a lot. He also runs the 3D printing club

Media assistants are in the "first tranche" (i.e. if any money gets cut at all, which it surely will, they're first to go, along with college and career navigators and a bunch of central office positions.) So they're basically doomed. It sucks.

[Anonymous]

The problem I have is that media assistants aren’t exactly compensated much for their time and energy, so it’s not really going to help the budget gap. If anything it will put more pressure on others . . . whereas Central Office employees get paid significantly more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been said sooo many times, but it’s obvious that central office positions should be the top priority when making these cuts. Are some positions necessary? Yes. Are the majority? Absolutely not.

Central Office only has a few hundred positions even available to cut from. There's no way they can take all of the 850+ job cuts from there. Yes, they are wasteful, and they should probably cut more than the 30ish Central Office positions currently on the list, but they can probably feasibly only cut 100 or so more max, possibly less.

Better 100 of them and leave 100 middle school positions intact. More actually because CO salaries are bloated compared to teachers.

[Anonymous]

Most media assistants get paid just $20-$30, whereas CO employee pay is significantly more. So in return for getting rid of 200 media assistants, saving just 3.5 million, you could simply get rid of 35 CO employees at $100,000 a piece.