Reducing personnel at central office

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Anonymous wrote:They have achievement specialist who used to be teachers but now, go around schools and meet with leadership. They could be cut. They have about 60 parent community coordinators who work from home. They could be cut. They have social workers who work with immigrant students, they should be sent directly to schools and supervised by principals. The social workers work out of Rocking Horse Road Center. Rocking Horse Road Center is another building filled with Central Office staff. They have a Spring Mill office off Kemp Mill Road filled with Central Office. English Manor filled with central office. Some of the Central Office positions are needed, but others are not. Just look to see who gets their PHD while working for Central Office. Those are the people that should be cut.

My high farms, 70% Latinx school needs ours. Although she technically works from home, she is rarely home. She’s out visiting families and is at our school at least two days a week for meetings. My school would be even more dysfunctional without her.

Then you have a PCC who actually does her job. So many do not. They spend their days at home on the computer and not reaching out to families. Ours turns down invites to interact with families in need.

Yes! Same experience with ours! Never at the school and when you send a request to participate in a meeting, they always "have a meeting" at the same time. Who supervises these folks? Who is holding them accountable?

CO Director Everett Davis, former Redland MS principal.

Our school reported ours to Everett Davis and were told "It must be miscommunication" that our PCC tells us he is at other schools while he is supposed to be supporting our school. I think the leadership is where the issues are. They are the only ones to hold their people accountable and from the looks of things, they don't want to.

Thank you for naming a name - I wonder how much Davis makes per year to obfuscate and deflect?

Everett Davis M in 2022 was employed at Montgomery County Public Schools and had an annual salary of $201,701.

So Mr. DAVIS is a former middle school principal. Is he a McKnight hire to the position getting paid $200 plus?

Smith promoted him in 2019.

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Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

MCAP is a silly test that has not even been vetted. Further, it is a state test, not MCPS. The county shouldn't waste a dime on this.

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But they do waste SO much time testing students every Spring. Time that could be spent on better teaching and learning.

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As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

Exactly. What the heck do they actually do if they are not visiting the schools? Another example of over compensated CO staff.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

When I asked the state about this in November, they told me the following:

“Thank you for your email regarding your child's MCAP scores. Each local education agency has received student scores for MCAP assessments in ELA, mathematics and science. Please contact your child's school for a copy of the individual student report (ISR). The school should have both a hard copy, and a digital copy which they can provide to you.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.”

It’s now February, and MCPS couldn’t be bothered to send reports they have had for months. They just don’t want us to know how bad the scores were.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

When I asked the state about this in November, they told me the following:

“Thank you for your email regarding your child's MCAP scores. Each local education agency has received student scores for MCAP assessments in ELA, mathematics and science. Please contact your child's school for a copy of the individual student report (ISR). The school should have both a hard copy, and a digital copy which they can provide to you.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.”

It’s now February, and MCPS couldn’t be bothered to send reports they have had for months. They just don’t want us to know how bad the scores were.

According to that office at Central responsible for mailing the results to families, as of January they don't have staff to place the reports into the huge envelopes to send out to home addresses. Don't know how when schools received the ISRs. They can't do their job, then my kid shouldn't have to do theirs taking the test!

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Anonymous wrote:But they do waste SO much time testing students every Spring. Time that could be spent on better teaching and learning.

Because it is state mandated test

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Anonymous wrote:As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

Exactly. What the heck do they actually do if they are not visiting the schools? Another example of over compensated CO staff.

Apparently they are home rejecting invitations to join meetings at schools and not meeting with families. How are you increasing their pay when there are so many complaints about this office? Who is giving them a raise? What supervisor/or office?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

Exactly. What the heck do they actually do if they are not visiting the schools? Another example of over compensated CO staff.

Apparently they are home rejecting invitations to join meetings at schools and not meeting with families. How are you increasing their pay when there are so many complaints about this office? Who is giving them a raise? What supervisor/or office?

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Where are those "many complaints"? DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know if this has been covered in the last 5-6 pages, but what CO needs is more hands to get the MCAP test results into envelopes to mail them out to families. It is beyond ridonc that students were assessed last Spring and results have yet to be seen by parents (and maybe the schools too). What meaning is there to have students sit for hours for multiple state mandated tests when results take this long to return? So which ever department it is that is in charge of mailing home assessments definitely needs more people to package, or the department needs a machine to do the packaging. And finally the actual mailing. Someone at CO should advocate for release of results earlier than it is taking now. If results can't be sent out in a timely manner, allow families to opt their kid from taking the damn tests. Get it together, Maryland! Rant over.

When I asked the state about this in November, they told me the following:

“Thank you for your email regarding your child's MCAP scores. Each local education agency has received student scores for MCAP assessments in ELA, mathematics and science. Please contact your child's school for a copy of the individual student report (ISR). The school should have both a hard copy, and a digital copy which they can provide to you.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.”

It’s now February, and MCPS couldn’t be bothered to send reports they have had for months. They just don’t want us to know how bad the scores were.

It's not MCPS responsibility to deal with MCAP. It is a state test. They're just trying to pass the buck.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

Exactly. What the heck do they actually do if they are not visiting the schools? Another example of over compensated CO staff.

Apparently they are home rejecting invitations to join meetings at schools and not meeting with families. How are you increasing their pay when there are so many complaints about this office? Who is giving them a raise? What supervisor/or office?

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Where are those "many complaints"? DCUM?

The bulk of the central office jobs are there to focus on equity optics like closing the achievement gap from the top down and foster more honors for all programming.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Mcps staff that works at a Title I school. We have our school based PCC (parent community coordinator) that works at the school every day. We also have a central office PCC that is supposed to be here once a week. We don't see the central office pcc much. I also just heard MCPS is thinking of increasing the CO pccs to Step 22 from thwir current step 20. If the central office pccs dont work, why would you increase their salary?

Exactly. What the heck do they actually do if they are not visiting the schools? Another example of over compensated CO staff.

Apparently they are home rejecting invitations to join meetings at schools and not meeting with families. How are you increasing their pay when there are so many complaints about this office? Who is giving them a raise? What supervisor/or office?

NP
Where are those "many complaints"? DCUM?

The bulk of the central office jobs are there to focus on equity optics like closing the achievement gap from the top down and foster more honors for all programming.

In other words, bull shit crap