Cuts

[Anonymous]

What is happening in the largest school district in MD?

[Anonymous]

There were cuts at Lakelands Park.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if this is an effort for MCPS to create a faux crisis to force BOE to accept their full budget. If the rumor of $150mill in debt is true, the classroom is the LAST place cuts should be made. Show me all the CO and secretariats jobs cut first. No idea why my school of less than 700 kids needs 4 full time secretaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involuntary transfers happened in February

Yes. And it happened again this week

Yes, it"s a mess. School leaders were informed last week that many secondary schools were overstuffed and would get reductions due to enrollment. The delay in making those cuts are impacting hiring more teachers at the elementary level where there's more increases.

There's a hold on hiring external candidates in most conent areas until these staff members find school placements. It's taking HR awhile to find placements so everyone is in a holding pattern.

[Anonymous]

Redland got cuts. 2 full positions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involuntary transfers happened in February

Yes. And it happened again this week

Yes, it"s a mess. School leaders were informed last week that many secondary schools were overstuffed and would get reductions due to enrollment. The delay in making those cuts are impacting hiring more teachers at the elementary level where there's more increases.

There's a hold on hiring external candidates in most conent areas until these staff members find school placements. It's taking HR awhile to find placements so everyone is in a holding pattern.

Overstaffed is what I meant to say!! 😅

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if this is an effort for MCPS to create a faux crisis to force BOE to accept their full budget. If the rumor of $150mill in debt is true, the classroom is the LAST place cuts should be made. Show me all the CO and secretariats jobs cut first. No idea why my school of less than 700 kids needs 4 full time secretaries.

The budget cycle already passed BOE approval and is at the county approval level. This is more likely related to trying to cut down to what the county executive wants to bring to the council.

My HS was 4.5 over, but 2 of those positions have been open a while, so not really needed. The other 2.5 I think are inefficient use of staffing, where maybe you only need .8 FTE in a certain certification, but you keep 1.0 so you don’t have people teaching in 2 buildings or out of content area.

[Anonymous]

I think mcps negligence has litterally gotten their pants sued off and the only recourse of tyrants is to make the jobs harder of the teachers who are already deprived of balanced work schedules. The people who should be out of a job are admins and co staff bc bad decisions costed taxpayers millions upon millions. Doesn't anyone take responsibility?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:or is it that they received that many resignations because those teachers are fed up, and wanted to get ahead of that news to say they are making cuts? You know, for optics, once again.

It’s legit involuntary transfers

So were there cuts or just transfers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:or is it that they received that many resignations because those teachers are fed up, and wanted to get ahead of that news to say they are making cuts? You know, for optics, once again.

It’s legit involuntary transfers

So were there cuts or just transfers?

Positions were cut and teachers holding these positions are being transferred to open positions rather than hiring new people for open positions.

[Anonymous]

I’m an MCPS middle school teacher. Formally, my principal announced yesterday that we lost 2 full time positions due to budget cuts. Informally, I’ve heard all middle schools lost full time position’s adding up to about 100 teachers because middle schools are “over staffed” and cuts were needed due to budget.

[Anonymous]

Then these are not cuts. Sounds like it’s a way to hopefully be more efficient with staffing. They are moving people around so that means external candidates will not considered for hire until every current MCPS teacher is placed. - secondary teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then these are not cuts. Sounds like it’s a way to hopefully be more efficient with staffing. They are moving people around so that means external candidates will not considered for hire until every current MCPS teacher is placed. - secondary teacher

This is going to push class sizes at many middle schools into the 30s. This is a cut and while it may look efficient for the budget it is not effective for your child if they need to, say, learn material

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then these are not cuts. Sounds like it’s a way to hopefully be more efficient with staffing. They are moving people around so that means external candidates will not considered for hire until every current MCPS teacher is placed. - secondary teacher

This is going to push class sizes at many middle schools into the 30s. This is a cut and while it may look efficient for the budget it is not effective for your child if they need to, say, learn material

Right. This is a headcount reduction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:still no source.

...Because there IS no source.

The voices in their head.