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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here’s my question:

What is the plan? There are 588 missing teachers.  That’s roughly 18,000 kids (30 per class) without a teacher.

What are the levers? 
- Do they just make the classes bigger?
- move teachers around to share the pain between schools?  Seems unfair to have some schools fully staffed while others are at 50%
- Put kids into the cafeteria all day?

Seriously, what is the PLAN?[/quote]

Each school makes and communicates its own plan based on its particular vacancies.
Each day there are less than 588 vacancies.  And the average teacher-to-student ratio is 14-1 at FCPS (includes sped which has lower ratios and specialist positions like reading specialist or librarian that don't have specific assigned students), so it's more like 8300 students.  So the plan is to try as hard as possible to whittle away the remaining vacancies and then those that are left will be handled in school-specific way.  In ES, they will try to max out class sizes and use IAs etc. to support so that every child has a home teacher.  For MS/HS they will probably offer overloads to more experienced teachers who can get by with fewer planning periods and do things to increase class size.  This may result in under-enrolled electives being combined -- this has already happened in art classes in the past--a teacher in a single period may be teaching Photo 1, with small groups of Photo 2, 3 and AP studio art in the same class session.  You'll probably see this more in other courses. Administrators and coaches will continue to be floating substitutes as needed.

FCPS is in a much better position than many school districts across the country but it's still going to be challenging.[/quote]

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