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[quote=Anonymous]  I am alarmed at some of the proposed cuts. What is on the list that you feel MUST not be touched? What cuts would you make? Here is what I would cut if I were queen and I absolutely had to make cuts:)

Keep:

-Class size and instructional assistants-classes are already too big

-Special Ed services as they are

-Counselors-with the rise in mental health issues, bullying issues, etc this should be essential

-Make cuts:

-HR (Some of the people I e countered had way too much time on their hands)

-FLES-in an ideal world it's a great idea, but it's not essential. If you want your child to learn a foreign language and your child is not in an immersion program, look at after school classes in the area. When the county bounces back I'm all for bringing this program back.

-Find a way to measure teacher quality and have 3 different levels of raises each year: needs improvement-no raise, competent-whatever percent and then exceptional gets a higher raise than the usual level

-Decrease school psychologists who just do educational assessments. Families than can afford to may use testing/evaluators from outside the school system and those who cannot use the school system's professionals. So many times we all get outside assessments anyway and we contest the school's results so why not make a school assessment optional. Just lists the tests a private assessor must use. Some school psychologists are exceptional, but too many are mediocre. [/quote]

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