A little late? Funding was restored for next year, ding dong. |
Great news!!! |
Wait so we have the activities now??? |
Wow! Fairfax county giving $118 million more over last year to FCPS! Of course FCPC wanted an increase of > $200 million (guessing for more gatehouse payroll and lawsuits they created) so they will complain, but to get $118 million more is huge in this environment. |
YOU ARE SO, SO WRONG - most of that would have paid for a 7% increase in salary for teachers, that they are no longer getting. |
Really glad to hear that these are back on the table for next year. I already got an email about the VIP summer camp. We had registered for other camps, thinking it wouldn't happen, but hopefully it will still be there next year. |
FCPS School Board also just added several highly-paid staff positions, while proposing to cut BOTH the special ed and the AAP coordinator positions.
But they will retain the 60+ full time DEI officers, and Reid gets to keep her raise. |
I posted this in another thread but maybe is better posted here:
Is the meals tax that just passed not going towards FCPS budget? I got an email from our school today outlining all the cuts that would need to be made with the current deficit, and I'm not happy. Compared to my school district when I was a kid, FCPS does not need to buy near as many physical textbooks and they don't have the extensive offering of middle school sports we had. Where is all the money going? My impression is FCPS is a bad steward of taxpayer funds. |
We have an email today from our elem principal outlining the teachers and roles that will be cut and encouraging us to contact school board to advocate FCPS getting the full budget. One of the items is larger class sizes. |
Not sure, but I think the issue is how our superintendent and School Board is deciding how to spend the money. And, did I not read that this middle school program has been funded already? |
Which school? |
I’m concerned about the class size issue for the future if these boundary changes go through. My kids’ school stands to gain 5-6 kids per grade level from new neighborhoods moving in with the proposed boundary changes. With only 3 teachers per grade level, that seems like +2 in most classrooms, maybe a few +1. Some classrooms are already at 28-30 students especially in K. |
there will likely be additional staff--and numbers always change from year to year. But, I don't think our Supe has addressed staffing issues yet. Just wait. |
I got the same email from our ES and am also concerned about class sizes. We are largely untouched by the boundary changes, but this email implied they would have to cut teacher positions. Like your school, most classes are 26-30 range already. We are also a center so I don't see how a part time AART would even be able to function. |
There will be some central office staff cuts but we don’t know who they are as yet. |