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[quote=Anonymous]Does that ESOL cost include the money allocated to these students per the needs based staffing ratio? FCPS is currently counting ESOL students and FARM students as if they were 1.5 or 2 students per each student and then running a staffing calculation based on this increased student population to figure out how many teachers should be at a school. Their calculation is about 26.25 teachers per this increased number of students. Then when they tally the numbers and send their average to the state, their student teacher ratios match up with state requirements since they are just sending an average and the state doesn't care that there's 30 1st graders in some high SES elementary school and 15 1st graders in another because the state average is 24. The ESOL students are getting more classroom teachers because of this staffing ratio but FCPS would have to provide many of these teachers anyway just to meet VA code. Does this $83.9 million include the staffing ratio classroom teachers and ESOL teachers?[/quote]

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