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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how much FCPS would save if we got rid of AAP Centers.

I'm not saying get rid of AAP, I'm saying Centers. That would significantly reduce bussing costs and reduce the number of AARTs that are required. [/quote]

This would reduce bussing but how would it reduce staff? With no centers FCPS would need to keep an AART at each school. [/quote]

AARTs at LLIV schools are part-time. Two schools can share an AART. This would reduce staff. But it would be a huge reduction in bus costs. Like in the millions.[/quote]

8 million.  Which isn’t really that much at all in a 4 billion budget, but you can nitpick the things you don’t like even if they don’t take that much money. [/quote]

You think $8 Million is not a lot of money? [/quote]

You judge the dollars spent by the value received.  This is a huge waste of 8 million dollars.  The schools would be better served by an additional teacher.  Much better served.  Or two or three additional instructional aides that can actually help in the classroom.[/quote]

Agreed, but 8$ million wouldn’t get a teacher in every school. That is 80-100 teachers.  There are way more schools than that. [/quote]

Are there instructional coaches in high schools and middle schools?[/quote]

Yes.  And for principals to "buy" a true instructional coach position (vs. a resource teacher position that is a regular teacher contract vs. the longer instructional coach contract) it costs them 2 teacher positions.  The Dean of Students positions that have proliferated at the middle/high schools are also "bought" positions by the principals, not postions the county mandates or includes in their staffing formulas. Principals get a staffing formula each spring that gives them x number of teacher positions, x number of office staff, sped teachers, counselors, etc.  The instructional coaches and deans are not mandated-- that is the principal making the choice to have fewer English teachers (or whatever) in order to have a coach.  But the coaches take some of the paperwork/meeting burden off of the admin, so they like them.  At the expense of fewer people actually in classrooms with students.

I have nothing against the coaches.  I've worked with some that are genuinely there to help. But now that our class sizes have ballooned, I think the county needs to take a serious look at the trades principals are making. With that being said, because the principals aren't complaining about the coaches and because the head of the coaching program is a FCPS golden girl, the coaches aren't going anywhere.  But your elementary school music and PE teachers may be next year if word on the FCPS street is to be believed. [/quote]

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