DCPS Central Office Cuts

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Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Are most of the coaches gone b/c of funding?

Coaches are school based

Not ECE

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.

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.

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.

Yes they do “subscribe”. Just like any teacher who doesn’t have a coach in their room every day. They can put on a dog and pony show for downtown and then go back to how they prefer to teach. That is what my child’s veteran ECE teacher did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Are most of the coaches gone b/c of funding?

Coaches are school based

Not ECE

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.

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.

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.

The coaches roll out new curriculum training and they support CLASS observations which many principals don’t know. They gently coach Principals to seeing the ECE lens. Our schools ECE programs are consistent across the city because of the great coaches. Some crazy principals think ECE should look and sound like grades K-1. They are the best teachers who rose up in the ranks. I pray they all land on their feet quickly.

[Anonymous]

So was 40% of central office being firing real ?

[Anonymous]

It was 6% which they said was about 100 or so positions. And that's on top of the past two years which they also had similar level reductions. There will certainly be even more for the next fiscal year given the cuts in federal funding.

[Anonymous]

At this point, the should just shut down every part of Central Office except payroll, benefits, legal, budget and employee onboarding. Just let every school do whatever they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was 6% which they said was about 100 or so positions. And that's on top of the past two years which they also had similar level reductions. There will certainly be even more for the next fiscal year given the cuts in federal funding.

So DCPS Central Office has 1600+ employees???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was 6% which they said was about 100 or so positions. And that's on top of the past two years which they also had similar level reductions. There will certainly be even more for the next fiscal year given the cuts in federal funding.

Sounds good. I find it very hard to fathom needing that many people for a district that size, as it shrinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, the should just shut down every part of Central Office except payroll, benefits, legal, budget and employee onboarding. Just let every school do whatever they want.

Ideally Central Office would look like this.

1. Instructional Superintendents (1 Per Cluster)
2. Employee Services
3. Staffing Support/ Talent Recruitment
4. Student Health/ Nutrition Support
5. Fiscal/ Budgets
6. Legal
7. School Partnerships Support
8. Enrollment Support
9. School Planning Support
10. Facilities Support
11. Special Education Support
12. Technology Support
13.Curriculum Development & Implementation Support (2 or 3 people per content area and 3 Implementation Staff per cluster)
14. Family Engagement Support
15. Federal Program Compliance

[Anonymous]

At most DCPS Central Office, should have no more than 600 employees.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure how many there are but there’s a lot more positions that are considered “central office” than just those people that work out of the central office. A lot of teacher positions/coaching positions are considered central office simply because they don’t sit on school budgets. For example, itinerant ELL teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell us more. Are most of the coaches gone b/c of funding?

Coaches are school based

Not ECE

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.

No, coaching has no impact on the day to day in the classroom. None. Don't delude yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how many there are but there’s a lot more positions that are considered “central office” than just those people that work out of the central office. A lot of teacher positions/coaching positions are considered central office simply because they don’t sit on school budgets. For example, itinerant ELL teachers.

There are also a lot of positions in central office that are not considered central office in the budget - instructional superintendents for an example.

[Anonymous]

Some of you all sound like the same folks cheering on the DODGE cuts to the federal gov't workers.

[Anonymous]

This seems like the annual purge. It has to be stressful working in that office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how many there are but there’s a lot more positions that are considered “central office” than just those people that work out of the central office. A lot of teacher positions/coaching positions are considered central office simply because they don’t sit on school budgets. For example, itinerant ELL teachers.

A lot of those positions *should* be school-based and managed by the principal, but Central Office manages them for control (which, to me, is bad because CO sucks at most of what they do).