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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Cut the number of administrative staff at Gatehouse and at each school. Too many vice-principals who each have a myriad of staff.

2. Cut the amount of tech in schools - kids should not have a one-to-one laptop. Kids who need it can take laptop home but no need to give one to each kid and no laptops or ipads at the elementary age at all. That will reduce number of tech staff as well.

3. Cut the edtech programming subscriptions. Lexia, Prodigy, IXL, ST Math ... I could go on and on. Each subscriptions costs money every year. Buy textbooks that you can reuse year after year.

4. Cut DEI - I know what you are thinking. I'm super liberal but I don't believe in jobs that don't have any metrics that you can pinpoint to - what does the head of DEI do actually on a day to day basis? If there is an actual thing that will help disadvantaged kids, I'm all for it. I just don't see that happening anywhere in FCPS. [/quote]

This is also my list, plus getting rid of AAP centers (and I say this as a bleeding-heart liberal and parent of a center kid!). Move to a LLIV contained-classroom model for every school with at least 20 Level III/IV kids - no principal discretion to implement 'cluster model'. DEI-related programs like Girls Can Code, student affinity groups, etc. can and should continue at the school/pyramid/region level but the current head of DEI and her staff are horrible and need to go. HR should be able to cover the legal/anti-discrimination aspect.

I do think Instructional Aides play an important role in many schools so I wouldn't want to see them blanket cut, but a metrics-based approach to their deployment might cut down on their numbers.[/quote]

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