MCPS Hires Nancy Navarro to Clean Up Its Messes and Fix Its Relationship Problems

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

Doesn't seem so. What do other comparably large school systems look like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

Doesn't seem so. What do other comparably large school systems look like?

Great question. I took these numbers from wiki and had to do some math to separate out staff and teachers. It looks like FCPS has about half the number of non-teacher staff. Or to put a number on it, 5000 fewer employees. That's quite significant. Looks like MCPS is insanely bloated with non-teachers.

MCPS
Students 160,554
Teachers 13,994
Staff 25,232
Non-teacher staff 11,238
Student–teacher ratio 11.5:1

Fairfax Co. PS
Students 178,479
Teachers 13,199
Staff 19,077
Non-teacher staff 5,878
Student–teacher ratio 13.5:1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

Doesn't seem so. What do other comparably large school systems look like?

Great question. I took these numbers from wiki and had to do some math to separate out staff and teachers. It looks like FCPS has about half the number of non-teacher staff. Or to put a number on it, 5000 fewer employees. That's quite significant. Looks like MCPS is insanely bloated with non-teachers.

MCPS
Students 160,554
Teachers 13,994
Staff 25,232
Non-teacher staff 11,238
Student–teacher ratio 11.5:1

Fairfax Co. PS
Students 178,479
Teachers 13,199
Staff 19,077
Non-teacher staff 5,878
Student–teacher ratio 13.5:1

Staff mostly creates more busy work that requires hiring more staff. Half of these people are working on equity initiatives designed to dumb down the quality of education.

[Anonymous]

She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

[Anonymous]

This feels like Craig Rice all over again.

Voters overwhelmingly support term limits for the council, so they make up new jobs to get back on the gravy train.

God forbid you have to get a private sector job like the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

That's not fair. She also went on CNN to talk about how an employee made a dumb but not remotely hateful or malicious comment on a hot mic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

That's a great accomplishment in progressive eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

That's a great accomplishment in progressive eyes.

She's also a great equity crusader, so glad she's back on team MCPS fighting for our kids' futures!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

That's a great accomplishment in progressive eyes.

She's also a great equity crusader, so glad she's back on team MCPS fighting for our kids' futures!

Yes! With all this equity, soon MCPS will be competing with PG County schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: She was my rep. She did nothing but let people know she is Hispanic.

That's a great accomplishment in progressive eyes.

She's also a great equity crusader, so glad she's back on team MCPS fighting for our kids' futures!

Yes! With all this equity, soon MCPS will be competing with PG County schools.

We will be ranked #1 in equity! Where everyone is assigned the same outcome, the lowest common denominator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

Doesn't seem so. What do other comparably large school systems look like?

Great question. I took these numbers from wiki and had to do some math to separate out staff and teachers. It looks like FCPS has about half the number of non-teacher staff. Or to put a number on it, 5000 fewer employees. That's quite significant. Looks like MCPS is insanely bloated with non-teachers.

MCPS
Students 160,554
Teachers 13,994
Staff 25,232
Non-teacher staff 11,238
Student–teacher ratio 11.5:1

Fairfax Co. PS
Students 178,479
Teachers 13,199
Staff 19,077
Non-teacher staff 5,878
Student–teacher ratio 13.5:1

Can we put something on the ballot that caps the number of admin jobs to a percentage of teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I hope county council sees what a sham this is and laughs in their faces. Why does McKnight always need to hire someone else to do her job? How much is this costing the system?

The council would laugh, except they are asked to fund this ever increasing number of high-priced central office staff. I hope the council says no to the budget increase the school district is asking for next year.

Does anyone know how many central office staff there are? There are approx 11,000 non-teacher staff. That includes everyone from lunch ladies to principals in schools. But that's a 16 to 1 student to (non-teacher) staff ratio which seems crazy.

Security, paras, bus drivers, building services, speech, OT, PT, playground aides, etc. It's a long list of non-teaching positions to make things run.

Yes, but a 16 to 1 ratio is nuts don't you think?

Doesn't seem so. What do other comparably large school systems look like?

Great question. I took these numbers from wiki and had to do some math to separate out staff and teachers. It looks like FCPS has about half the number of non-teacher staff. Or to put a number on it, 5000 fewer employees. That's quite significant. Looks like MCPS is insanely bloated with non-teachers.

MCPS
Students 160,554
Teachers 13,994
Staff 25,232
Non-teacher staff 11,238
Student–teacher ratio 11.5:1

Fairfax Co. PS
Students 178,479
Teachers 13,199
Staff 19,077
Non-teacher staff 5,878
Student–teacher ratio 13.5:1

Can we put something on the ballot that caps the number of admin jobs to a percentage of teachers?

While I 100% agree with you in spirit, they would just fill the roles with consultants. This has to start with BOE members who care more about the students than the organization. But with the teacher's union influencing the elections so heavily, this is a long shot. MCPS will continue downward until it is an unrecognizable shell of it's former self. Only then will people finally wake up and make changes. This is still probably a decade away though.