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[quote=Anonymous]Cuts:
What about all of the changing/testing of new curriculum programs every couple of years?  How much do they cost to start a new one every couple of years.
What about the electronic AND hard copy text books?  Elementary doesn't use either one for the most part!!  How much are the others being used?
What about the elementary and middle school AAP programs and AAP centers.  (Bring a true AAP program into all schools)
Get rid of the "qualification" board, busing, crazy testing, AART teachers(wasting my money).  Put the AAP teachers into the base schools.
Fee's for athletics.
Fee's for IB testing.
What about the IB program?  What is wrong with AP which is already in place and has been for years?  College's don't care about the extra GPA points and the manpower and student work time are crazy.
Take a closer look at the ESOL program.  I think it could use some wasteful spending cuts.  It is absolutely HUGE!
What about the "unlimited" resources given to Title 1 schools just to get them up to the basic standards [u]year[/u] after [u]year[/u]???

Keep:
FLES
Keep Art
Keep Instructional Assistants (although look for wastefulness)
Special Ed.
Cut class sizes so students learn better and teachers teach better(teachers already have enough students)
Teacher's need a raise.  Find a way to compensate Great teachers who work year after year under huge class sizes and very little pay and no pay increases for years.
Assistant Principles (really?)
Keep self selected AP classes in middle school to accommodate the advanced learners. (place the AAP center teachers here)

FCPS needs to tread very carefully here with cuts.  The quality teachers will move elsewhere and we'll become the next D.C. school system.
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