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Overall thoughts: The social workers and the Special Ed Resource Teachers (they are essentially the special ed department chairs) in a higher tranche #. Reducing these positions likely means more violence incidents, more due process special ed litigation, and ultimately lower enrollment numbers thus making the budget worse.
I love the idea of dual enrollment, as it helps some lower income students get an associates before graduating, but getting rid of it would save a lot of money, and it is often the wealthier students who use the service because they have the transportation means. This potential cut could get moved into Tranche 1 or 2. |
Like clockwork. |
For real!!! In 2024 the 8 current members of the Equity Dept cost MCPS $1,107,810 in salary alone. And that was two years ago! I’m sure it’s even more now. |
Keep up the great work Slippery Pete. The results show that you are killing it. Literally killing MCPS. |
Agreed. The entire department is a waste. As a teacher I see very little value in these positions. If you click further down you see a link for all the school based staff. I have met my schools assigned rep only once and it was a big nothing PD where they talked about themselves. There are rumors that some of the reps never show up to their assigned schools at all. They seem like they are there just for politics, not academic learning. We need help in the classrooms daily. Not these people bouncing around schools making useless meetings. |
All so they can produce this body of work: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/newsletters/2026-march/ Equity is an important principle and if we had meaningful outcomes, I'd be less critical, but given that the equity department has existed in MCPS over the last 5 years and NOTHING has improved for Black students, it's clear the work they do has no impact. Get rid of it and use that money to fund tutoring to help our Black children learn to read and do math. |