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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone really believe the meals tax was going to reduce class size?  How much of your tax money is squandered on wasteful pet projects within fiefdoms or on legal issues?  A highly dysfunctional SB is running this show.  Vote on Tuesday.[/quote]

The meals tax would have a hell of a lot more than the name change will ever cost FCPS after the private donations.

Large classes at Wolftrap have been the norm for a long time. It has one of the lowest FARMS/ESOL percentages in the entire county, so no formula staffing adjustments.[/quote]

The reason Wolftrap's class size keeps increasing is because the school board keeps reducing the number of teachers it gives out per the number of students a school has. It is the school board that keeps changing the formulas for general ed. This is a separate issue from anything to d o with FARMS/ESOL. They may be related because the school board is decreasing money for general ed to go to these areas, however they don't have to. They could just as easily take it from somewhere else and eliminate a program. it is the general ed staffing formulas that are causing class sizes to increase for general ed.[/quote]

To mitigate this though,  the school board is giving additional teachers when the breakdown of grades results in large class sizes. Wolftrap and other schools have been getting additional teachers through the staffing reserve. This way they are allocating teachers more cost effectively and also reducing the number of specialist teachers they are paying for.
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