Elrich and Friedson confusingly blame each other for underfunding MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

This one: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/clusteradmin/equity/

And this one:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/otls/

Those are departments not positions. And before suggesting they can be eliminated better be clear about all of the personnel that work there and all of what they cover.

[Anonymous]

MCPS actually looks pretty lean compared to other Maryland school districts, in their ratio of non-instructional staff to number of students. See table 4 here:

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DCAA/SSP/20222023Staff/2023StaffEmply.pdf

Montgomery has 17.2 non-instructional staff per student, while the state average is 20.9.

And a reminder that non-instructional staff are not all part of central office. The figure includes school-based staff who work in building maintenance, the cafeteria, the office, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Start with the 5 director positions McKnight created for her buddies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Didn't McKnight add like 30% more staff to the CO for various DEI committees? And why does MCPS have 2X more admin positions than FCPS?

Idiot. MCPS does not have 2x mor admin positions than FCPS. FCPS has more.
You right wingers keep repeating that same lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Start with the 5 director positions McKnight created for her buddies.

Or special contracts with the Kid's Museum or Electric Busses or Another high paid comms firm or another study about something incredibly unuseful and unrelated to education or maybe some SEL training or the 10000 other incredibly dumb things they blow a pile of cash on every year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Didn't McKnight add like 30% more staff to the CO for various DEI committees? And why does MCPS have 2X more admin positions than FCPS?

Idiot. MCPS does not have 2x mor admin positions than FCPS. FCPS has more.
You right wingers keep repeating that same lie.

The data was posted here a month or two ago and MCPS has close to double the admin positions of FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Crop from the top. Why is MCPs continually adding contracts for things their central office staff should be doing? Oh wait, because they’re incompetent!

[Anonymous]

Also- No more of these new initiatives every single year. We don’t have time nor the bandwidth to keep reinventing the the same wheel with all the new educational drivel. No leader in me, no mindless PD that will never be truly implemented and evaluated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also- No more of these new initiatives every single year. We don’t have time nor the bandwidth to keep reinventing the the same wheel with all the new educational drivel. No leader in me, no mindless PD that will never be truly implemented and evaluated.

This is done to keep the central office people gainfully employed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Didn't McKnight add like 30% more staff to the CO for various DEI committees? And why does MCPS have 2X more admin positions than FCPS?

Idiot. MCPS does not have 2x mor admin positions than FCPS. FCPS has more.
You right wingers keep repeating that same lie.

The data was posted here a month or two ago and MCPS has close to double the admin positions of FCPS.

But without any apples to apples comparison - just job titles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also- No more of these new initiatives every single year. We don’t have time nor the bandwidth to keep reinventing the the same wheel with all the new educational drivel. No leader in me, no mindless PD that will never be truly implemented and evaluated.

This is done to keep the central office people gainfully employed.

That’s what I’m starting to gather after being in the system now a few years.

[Anonymous]

To balance the budget, the Chief Operating Officer, Brian Hull, and the Acting Superintendent, Monique Felder, say they will close the Virtual Academy, increase class size in all schools, and lay off teachers. In addition to that, MCPS has signed open contracts with 200 new teachers and intends to break those contracts.

Increased class size affects most teachers. Classroom teacher workload will be increased. Specialist allocations could be reduced. The problems experienced from the sub shortage will get worse. MCPS employees may have significant financial problems from being laid off so suddenly.

Executive leadership within MCPS must share in these cute. Eliminating redundant senior leadership positions should be prioritized before cuts impacting frontline educators.

[Anonymous]

Where are you seeing those details?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to cut the central office bloat first and foremost. After that happens we can talk about funding.

I keep reading this sentence over and over but what bloat does it refer to? List the positions that you think don't support the school system.

Start with the 5 director positions McKnight created for her buddies.

Or special contracts with the Kid's Museum or Electric Busses or Another high paid comms firm or another study about something incredibly unuseful and unrelated to education or maybe some SEL training or the 10000 other incredibly dumb things they blow a pile of cash on every year

This and all the attorney fees spent fighting families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To balance the budget, the Chief Operating Officer, Brian Hull, and the Acting Superintendent, Monique Felder, say they will close the Virtual Academy, increase class size in all schools, and lay off teachers. In addition to that, MCPS has signed open contracts with 200 new teachers and intends to break those contracts.

Increased class size affects most teachers. Classroom teacher workload will be increased. Specialist allocations could be reduced. The problems experienced from the sub shortage will get worse. MCPS employees may have significant financial problems from being laid off so suddenly.

Executive leadership within MCPS must share in these cute. Eliminating redundant senior leadership positions should be prioritized before cuts impacting frontline educators.

And, yet they got a funding increase, are one of the better funded school systems, cannot seem to manage their money well so they cut critical things or threaten to cut to force the council to give more money. They don't need more money. They need to fire leadership and get the spending under control and provide a line by line item of spending so everyone can see where it is all going.