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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please catch me back up. Are the largest holes to fill SPED related? What percentage of the FCPS student population falls under SPED?

Teacher contracts in FCPS are year-to-year, correct? Don’t most vacancies get filled at the last minute? That’s what I’ve been told as a partial explanation of why kids don’t know who their teaxher(s) are until a few days before school starts.[/quote]

In ES, many classes are built at the end of the year. There may be changes but about 80-90% of the class will stay the same. Rosters aren’t finalized until mid-August when the SIA builds the classes in SIS.  Vacancies are filled from April - August, mainly jobs are filled in the summer (not the week before school starts). It is incredibly stressful to fill positions a few days before school starts. It happens but it’s not really the norm. The positions filled late aren’t always the cream of the crop.

About 15% of FCPS students are SPED, but if those positions are not filled, the work will trickle down to other positions that will negatively affect the job satisfaction of classroom teachers AND affect the ability to meet accommodations in the IEP. When the district gets desperate they sometimes hire people on provisional licenses, who are inexperienced and not fully trained employees.

Many teachers, like myself, are in continuous contract. Meaning I have a job until I quit or am let go. I have not signed a contract with FCPS in 7 years, it’s a formality that isn’t done annually.[/quote]

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