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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you really need to look at is teachers/teacher's aides that have students assigned to their classes.  FCPS loves to claim that 90+% of the budget goes directly to schools, but there are a lot of positions in schools anymore that do have have classroom responsibilities.  Those are the positions that the county could cut back on if they were looking to trim back.  Examples (Extra Assistant Principals, SOSAs, Deans, Special Ed Department Chairs, Resource teachers, etc.)[/quote]

Excellent point. It would be nice to see a specific breakdown.

It seems pretty simple. What is the percentage of the budget that is strictly salary costs for the people who directly deliver instruction to students?

Why salary, and not training, benefits, “support”, and other associated costs? Because teachers and their “7% salary raise” are getting blamed for the budget shortfall.

In a way, when leadership and the SB say publicly “I want you to get a 7% raise” and then breaks the Fairfax County budget with loads of other expenses that are difficult to separate from actual teacher salaries, they make teachers the scapegoats. Not cool. [/quote]

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