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

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Anonymous wrote:So… what’s the update? Who is still being cut, after the straw vote?

Until/unless we hear otherwise, it's everyone in tranche 1 and 2.

I am one of the positions being cut and it's hard to come to work these days.

I'm sorry appreciate all that you do.

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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.

$180M

It could theoretically be up to $180M, but Council staff has recommended cutting "only" $108M so that is probably the ceiling. This document covers how MCPS would absorb $90M in cuts (laying off 850 staff plus cutting everyone's COLAs) but they would need to do more to cover an $108M cut.

It's not a cut. MCPS will get an increased budget next year despite decreasing enrollment.

Ah, you're one of those pedants who pretends that inflation doesn't exist, I take it? Yes, technically it is not a cut in straight dollars. But practically speaking, it is a very large cut.

Inflation is ~3.5% and the budget is increasing by ~5.5%. If you adjust for inflation, as you suggested, the budget is still larger.

Most of us are not getting raises at all let alone colas so these extra taxes will hurt us for those not higher income. A lot of my neighbors at some point plan to leave as $6-7 in property taxes alone for a crummy little house is not worth it or affordable.

Maryland is slowly going the way of CA and NY. High income earners are leaving or not coming to MD because many roles are remote. My company has numerous executives who fly in and stay at hotels during the week, then go home Thursday night. They negotiated this as part of their packages.

I wish Maryland were going the way of NY. NYC is hiring 1000 new teachers this year.

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Anonymous wrote:So… what’s the update? Who is still being cut, after the straw vote?

I watched Taylor’s latest video, after the straw vote, and it sounds like 27-28 school year is when the deep cuts will be implemented since MCPS will starting in the negative. I got the feeling like jobs will be saved and contracts honored for next year. I really hope no job that involves working directly with students is cut. We need as much help as we can get.

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This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

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Anonymous wrote:So… what’s the update? Who is still being cut, after the straw vote?

I watched Taylor’s latest video, after the straw vote, and it sounds like 27-28 school year is when the deep cuts will be implemented since MCPS will starting in the negative. I got the feeling like jobs will be saved and contracts honored for next year. I really hope no job that involves working directly with students is cut. We need as much help as we can get.

Oh is that how he is framing the fact that he doesn't actually have to do any of the layoffs he has been threatening to shake down the council for money it doesn't have?

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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

I like our SDT as a person, but she doesn’t do anything to help with instruction itself. Instead she just runs mandated trainings and assists with testing. She is often absent for her own or family illness. As a chronically ill person myself, I am sympathetic, but she doesn’t do anything when present. At most, she will provide Google links.

My prior SDT was really hands on. When I wanted to try a new technique, she modeled it with my kids, did it along side me, and then observed while I did it so she could give me feedback.

My SDT is the same. She facilitates poorly planned meetings and sends out lots of AI generated emails, but never develops staff. SDT in middle school is kind of a scam.

There are also Central Office staff who manage the SDTs. So wasteful.

Yup. In my opinion SDT's (MS/HS level) should be cut before media assistants. They mainly seem to exist to facilitate monthly staff meetings that are often canceled anyway. They also take away from planning time by delivering AI-generated professional development that doesn’t feel meaningful or relevant, and instead adds extra work like bs reflections and other requirements that don’t seem to provide real value.

Yes, SDTs before Media Assistants and ECAs. The SDT role is unique to MCPS because every other districts seems to know its bs so they don’t waste their money. The Media Assistants essentially run the Media Center that has hundreds of users daily while the Media specialist supports classes doing research. Our ECA runs workshops every other week and supports students during lunch as well as supporting students during class time. I’ve had several students who needed heavy support with writing and I couldn’t have given them level of attention they needed on my own. These two roles are essential to the daily functioning of our HS. Taylor is making a big mistake eliminating their jobs. I hope he reconsiders.

SDTs teach .4 , if they are cut, I hope everyone realizes that will push teachers will less seniority out or to part time as we will need to give them back their .6 contractually.

I see zero evidence that our SDT teaches 0.4.

That would be two classes.

She doesn’t appear on the master schedule and ours even lists paras.

When she runs trainings, she does them all periods except during her lunch.

If she’s teaching two classes, it should be transparent which two.

Ours doesn’t teach either.

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Anonymous wrote:Please cut the equity office and the school based equity office personal. The staff development job already got cut from 1.0 to 0.4 just to keep it on life support. Keep the college and careers advisors. We need that person to handle college and other recruiters. It’s a full time gig. Can’t be easily dumped on anyone else.

+1 - Please look at the entire equity office and find out how they spend their 40 hours per week. It’s more beneficial to students if they can take their equity knowledge and wisdom back to the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

I’m surprised TT would cut a job that supports many first generation future college students, immigrants, and FARMS kiddos getting into college and getting ahead in life. I guess the equity office doesn’t advise the superintendent. Here’s my advice to him -don’t cut this job if you care about equity. He didn’t even need to pay me a six figure salary for that. You’re welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

Eliminate SSL altogether. These kids do their time serving the community via the relentless lockdown drills they participate in because the community is too screwed up to do anything else to save their bleeping lives. That's enough.

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

I’m surprised TT would cut a job that supports many first generation future college students, immigrants, and FARMS kiddos getting into college and getting ahead in life. I guess the equity office doesn’t advise the superintendent. Here’s my advice to him -don’t cut this job if you care about equity. He didn’t even need to pay me a six figure salary for that. You’re welcome.

I'm no Taylor fan, but if you have to make cuts college and career counselors seem like a luxury. Information about the college application process (which isn't that complicated as most colleges) is freely available online. We didn't have anything like that when I was in high school and we all managed just fine even though private college counselor wasn't a job that existed in our community.

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

I’m surprised TT would cut a job that supports many first generation future college students, immigrants, and FARMS kiddos getting into college and getting ahead in life. I guess the equity office doesn’t advise the superintendent. Here’s my advice to him -don’t cut this job if you care about equity. He didn’t even need to pay me a six figure salary for that. You’re welcome.

Is there data to support those students actually are “getting ahead”? What kind of student debt do they end up with relative to their salaries? What is their degree completion rate?

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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

I like our SDT as a person, but she doesn’t do anything to help with instruction itself. Instead she just runs mandated trainings and assists with testing. She is often absent for her own or family illness. As a chronically ill person myself, I am sympathetic, but she doesn’t do anything when present. At most, she will provide Google links.

My prior SDT was really hands on. When I wanted to try a new technique, she modeled it with my kids, did it along side me, and then observed while I did it so she could give me feedback.

My SDT is the same. She facilitates poorly planned meetings and sends out lots of AI generated emails, but never develops staff. SDT in middle school is kind of a scam.

There are also Central Office staff who manage the SDTs. So wasteful.

Yup. In my opinion SDT's (MS/HS level) should be cut before media assistants. They mainly seem to exist to facilitate monthly staff meetings that are often canceled anyway. They also take away from planning time by delivering AI-generated professional development that doesn’t feel meaningful or relevant, and instead adds extra work like bs reflections and other requirements that don’t seem to provide real value.

Yes, SDTs before Media Assistants and ECAs. The SDT role is unique to MCPS because every other districts seems to know its bs so they don’t waste their money. The Media Assistants essentially run the Media Center that has hundreds of users daily while the Media specialist supports classes doing research. Our ECA runs workshops every other week and supports students during lunch as well as supporting students during class time. I’ve had several students who needed heavy support with writing and I couldn’t have given them level of attention they needed on my own. These two roles are essential to the daily functioning of our HS. Taylor is making a big mistake eliminating their jobs. I hope he reconsiders.

SDTs teach .4 , if they are cut, I hope everyone realizes that will push teachers will less seniority out or to part time as we will need to give them back their .6 contractually.

I see zero evidence that our SDT teaches 0.4.

That would be two classes.

She doesn’t appear on the master schedule and ours even lists paras.

When she runs trainings, she does them all periods except during her lunch.

If she’s teaching two classes, it should be transparent which two.

Ours doesn’t teach either.

Some schools like Poolesville MS decided to give their SDT extra planning periods instead of having them teach their .4. Maybe the school put the SDT in charge of AEIST and then overfilled one subject area’s classes to squeeze out another section. It shouldn’t be allowed but it happens because the SDT does grunt work Admin doesn’t want to do.

It takes time to generate all those AI generated meeting agendas!

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

I’m surprised TT would cut a job that supports many first generation future college students, immigrants, and FARMS kiddos getting into college and getting ahead in life. I guess the equity office doesn’t advise the superintendent. Here’s my advice to him -don’t cut this job if you care about equity. He didn’t even need to pay me a six figure salary for that. You’re welcome.

Is there data to support those students actually are “getting ahead”? What kind of student debt do they end up with relative to their salaries? What is their degree completion rate?

It’s common knowledge that college grads earn more over their lifetime than HS grads. You can research it yourself if you are genuinely curious. I don’t know about the rate of MCPS students earning college degrees, but you have to be in college to earn one. One of the biggest traps is massive college debt I get that, imagine how difficult it is for a kid to navigate financial aid without support to avoid that type of debt.

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Anonymous wrote:This is incredibly sad. I can't believe they're cutting social workers and english assistants of all things...cut the SSL processors!

They're cutting HS college and career navigators, which just means kids whose parents can afford a private college counselor will continue to navigate the increasingly complicated college application/financial aid system just fine while those who can't afford it will be left behind with no one to guide them. So much for equity.

I’m surprised TT would cut a job that supports many first generation future college students, immigrants, and FARMS kiddos getting into college and getting ahead in life. I guess the equity office doesn’t advise the superintendent. Here’s my advice to him -don’t cut this job if you care about equity. He didn’t even need to pay me a six figure salary for that. You’re welcome.

I'm no Taylor fan, but if you have to make cuts college and career counselors seem like a luxury. Information about the college application process (which isn't that complicated as most colleges) is freely available online. We didn't have anything like that when I was in high school and we all managed just fine even though private college counselor wasn't a job that existed in our community.

College counselor here. The CCN does a lot of work to make it possible for the kids to apply to college, like transmitting documents and scheduling college representatives visiting the school. These tasks will now fall on the overworked counselors.