How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heard that FCPS had a highly anticipated job fair this week that was a total flop. Also hearing that they may announce that resource teachers who were recently promoted may have their promotions put on hold until their old position is filled.

Can anyone confirm?

As a parent monitoring the job board for my school, I am becoming more and more concerned.

Heard this rumor too. They may pull resource teachers to be in the classroom as teachers.

How? Would they just get subs for art and music?

Resource teachers usually refers to reading/math support positions. People who do small group pullouts and support multiple classrooms.

[Anonymous]

“In Northern Virginia, teacher resignation trends varied by system. Those in Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria saw increases in resignations, while the Loudoun school system saw little change in resignation totals.

Fairfax County Public Schools, which enrolls 178,635 students, per state data — making it the largest district in the state — saw 896 teacher resignations in 2022. That represents a roughly 45 percent increase compared with the average number of resignations between 2018 and 2021: 620. This year’s total is also equivalent to roughly 5.6 percent of the teacher workforce, which typically comprises 16,000 employees, according to spokeswoman Julie Moult.

Moult said the district is worried for next year.
“We do have some concerns about teacher shortages for this upcoming year,” she said. “We will be doing all we can in the next seven weeks to ensure we fill any gaps.”

Adams, the Fairfax Education Association leader, predicted that a couple hundred jobs will remain unfilled by the time school starts this fall. But she is hopeful that some openings will be filled soon, due in part to training programs the school system is hosting — for example, a webinar that encourages assistant teachers to become full-time teachers.

Officials in Arlington Public Schools will also spend the summer working to fill an atypically large number of empty positions. Arlington, which enrolls 27,045 students, according to state data, saw 284 teachers resign between August 2021 and mid-May 2022. The district usually employs about 3,000 teachers, per spokesman Frank Bellavia.”

[Anonymous]

(Washington Post Article)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“In Northern Virginia, teacher resignation trends varied by system. Those in Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria saw increases in resignations, while the Loudoun school system saw little change in resignation totals.

Fairfax County Public Schools, which enrolls 178,635 students, per state data — making it the largest district in the state — saw 896 teacher resignations in 2022. That represents a roughly 45 percent increase compared with the average number of resignations between 2018 and 2021: 620. This year’s total is also equivalent to roughly 5.6 percent of the teacher workforce, which typically comprises 16,000 employees, according to spokeswoman Julie Moult.

Moult said the district is worried for next year.
“We do have some concerns about teacher shortages for this upcoming year,” she said. “We will be doing all we can in the next seven weeks to ensure we fill any gaps.”

Adams, the Fairfax Education Association leader, predicted that a couple hundred jobs will remain unfilled by the time school starts this fall. But she is hopeful that some openings will be filled soon, due in part to training programs the school system is hosting — for example, a webinar that encourages assistant teachers to become full-time teachers.

Officials in Arlington Public Schools will also spend the summer working to fill an atypically large number of empty positions. Arlington, which enrolls 27,045 students, according to state data, saw 284 teachers resign between August 2021 and mid-May 2022. The district usually employs about 3,000 teachers, per spokesman Frank Bellavia.”

Washington Post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you monitor job board for individual schools?

Go to openings and you can search by school.

I think we need to be prepared for the max legal ratio of student and teacher and expect that at many schools.

Hmm. Am I looking in the right place? My base school has one listing for a 2nd grade teacher and the closest 4 ESs aren’t even listed.

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you monitor job board for individual schools?

Go to openings and you can search by school.

I think we need to be prepared for the max legal ratio of student and teacher and expect that at many schools.

Hmm. Am I looking in the right place? My base school has one listing for a 2nd grade teacher and the closest 4 ESs aren’t even listed.

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

Maybe that’s right. It really varies across the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you monitor job board for individual schools?

Go to openings and you can search by school.

I think we need to be prepared for the max legal ratio of student and teacher and expect that at many schools.

Hmm. Am I looking in the right place? My base school has one listing for a 2nd grade teacher and the closest 4 ESs aren’t even listed.

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

Maybe that’s right. It really varies across the county.

It sure does. Our ES shows a part time counselor, the MS a History and an IA position, the HS an IA and two counselors.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have updates about the principals’ meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you monitor job board for individual schools?

Go to openings and you can search by school.

I think we need to be prepared for the max legal ratio of student and teacher and expect that at many schools.

Hmm. Am I looking in the right place? My base school has one listing for a 2nd grade teacher and the closest 4 ESs aren’t even listed.

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

Of the 4 neighborhood schools around me, three have no teacher openings and just a couple of other openings and one has openings in every conceivable category. That's also the school with the principal that both teachers and parents loathe. Maybe their inability to retain talent will force gatehouse to listen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have updates about the principals’ meeting?

Which meeting are you referring to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have updates about the principals’ meeting?

One of my APS said much of the meeting was about backlogs processing new hires at HR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have updates about the principals’ meeting?

One of my APS said much of the meeting was about backlogs processing new hires at HR.

Is that different from normal years? I remember going through the process a few years ago and it took forever. Is the difference just the scale of retiring teachers/new hires?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you monitor job board for individual schools?

Go to openings and you can search by school.

I think we need to be prepared for the max legal ratio of student and teacher and expect that at many schools.

Hmm. Am I looking in the right place? My base school has one listing for a 2nd grade teacher and the closest 4 ESs aren’t even listed.

https://careers.fcps.edu/vl/vacancy.htm

Maybe that’s right. It really varies across the county.

What is also not on this list are all the long term sub positions for pregnant teachers.

[Anonymous]

45 students per classroom is coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:45 students per classroom is coming.

The state would love the excuse to crack down on FCPS if that happened because it's flatly illegal.