Reducing personnel at central office

[Anonymous]

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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?

Maybe McKnight tossed those complaints or fudged them on her way out?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Talk to your supervisors that send out surveys to school admin and see what the admin say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[url]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Talk to your supervisors that send out surveys to school admin and see what the admin say.

Are these survey results available to the public?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Passing the MCAP in high school is a literal graduation requirement. It is very much the responsibility of MCPS to communicate results to parents. Please educate yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Passing the MCAP in high school is a literal graduation requirement. It is very much the responsibility of MCPS to communicate results to parents. Please educate yourself.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1185945.page

[Anonymous]

I was a brand new RT in high school and an achievement specialist informed me that she was assigned to my school. She said in our summer meeting that she would be supporting our department because our focus students weren't doing well. We were supposed to meet regularly that year. I met with her twice. Our initial meeting in the summer and once more over the course of the school year. I think achievement specialist should be on the list to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was a brand new RT in high school and an achievement specialist informed me that she was assigned to my school. She said in our summer meeting that she would be supporting our department because our focus students weren't doing well. We were supposed to meet regularly that year. I met with her twice. Our initial meeting in the summer and once more over the course of the school year. I think achievement specialist should be on the list to go.

Get that "achievement specialist" to be reassigned to a position at a MCPS HS experiencing problems surrounding bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1186432.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a brand new RT in high school and an achievement specialist informed me that she was assigned to my school. She said in our summer meeting that she would be supporting our department because our focus students weren't doing well. We were supposed to meet regularly that year. I met with her twice. Our initial meeting in the summer and once more over the course of the school year. I think achievement specialist should be on the list to go.

Get that "achievement specialist" to be reassigned to a position at a MCPS HS experiencing problems surrounding bathrooms.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1186432.page

[Anonymous]

Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?

And how did they do?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?

And how did they do?

They've done a lot to tweak the optics on closing the gap by creating more honors for all programs and reducing opportunities for advanced learners with all these lottery programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?

And how did they do?

They've done a lot to tweak the optics on closing the gap by creating more honors for all programs and reducing opportunities for advanced learners with all these lottery programs.

How did the lottery reduce opportunity for advance learners? It just made it so all advanced capable learners had a chance. And they created ELC and expanded to all ES.

[Anonymous]

Let them all be paras who are training to be teachers. They might take a pay cut and a work hour boost. Unless they don't care for education then force them to resign. Unless mcps picks a chooses who gets favorable treatment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?

And how did they do?

They've done a lot to tweak the optics on closing the gap by creating more honors for all programs and reducing opportunities for advanced learners with all these lottery programs.

Well, when the county hasn't ponied up to meet budget requests for about three decades, it's kind of hard to meet the total need by opening up enough magnet seats or implementing robust enough local enriched programs. Using a lottery is intended to blunt the impact of differential opportunities driven by economic condition (e.g., heavy outside prep), though the criteria they employ could better be used to that effect with a more well considered heuristic.

Not saying they are great with the budget or that there isn't waste, but, like much of US infrastructure, the built up technical debt, both physical plant and programmatic, means we've got pounds of cure to fund instead of the ounces of prevention we could have.

You're right about the optics. Upper management undercuts truer analysis by ensuring the questions asked when evaluating programs pretty much lead to the conclusions they want, and the few times they are asked for more by the BOE, they tend to wave that off verbally, bury the response in something that doesn't get discussed in person or, sometimes, outright lie. The BOE has been absolutely terrible about follow-ups/second- or third-level inquiry that would highlight a need to do something different.

Except for the couple of specific interests they champion of course. (Not that those are bad, necessarily, but they take up all of their time & energy.)