If SPS Thinks All Parents are Good for is Fundraising...
Join Teacher Retention Advocate Parents for a "bake
sale" to highlight the inadequacy of local parent groups to fund raise
for major staffing cuts. We will call on SPS to make alternate budget
cuts and our state legislature to fully fund McCleary.
Tuesday, October 13th from 11 am - 1pm at JSCEE
Tuesday, October 13th from 11 am - 1pm at JSCEE
We will have a table with various treats and goodies such as:
- Bum Deal Brownies
- Chopping Block Chocolate Chip cookies
- Overcrowding Krispy Treats
- McCleary M&M Bars
- Paramount Duty Pie
- B.S. Banana Bread
- Teacher Shuffle Sugar Cookies
- Bye Bye Teacher Blondies
- Pissed off Parent Peanut Butter Bars.
All of these items are priced to move at .5 FTE.
- Bum Deal Brownies
- Chopping Block Chocolate Chip cookies
- Overcrowding Krispy Treats
- McCleary M&M Bars
- Paramount Duty Pie
- B.S. Banana Bread
- Teacher Shuffle Sugar Cookies
- Bye Bye Teacher Blondies
- Pissed off Parent Peanut Butter Bars.
All of these items are priced to move at .5 FTE.
Comments
Sped Readers
You are correct. Plus all elementary schools with a "continuum of services" (meaning, basically, an inclusion program) will have the Resource Room ratio changed from 18:1:1 to 22:1, eliminating ALL resource room IAs from those schools (and increasing the caseload by 4).
And, none of this is being told to the parents.
LAP
LAP
Not Surprised
Sped Reader
Do you have examples of a school with a self-contained program not at 100% that has just received a cut in IA support?
That should not be happening, IMO.
LAP
Sped Reader
1) In the resource room at a "continuum" school (a school that has the full continuum of services, not just resource room), where the resource room ratio was changed from 18:1:1 to 22:1 and
2) At secondary schools with Access, where the Access ratio was changed from 10:1:3 to 13:1:3.
Unless there was a disproportionate percentage of the 675 missing students who were in special ed, I don't see why there should be significant special ed cuts beyond that. It looks like by the district's count, around 15% of SPS students are in special ed, so that should be ~100 students across the district. Maybe if a school was disproportionately affected, they might lose a teacher?
I know that we are losing an 0.4 special ed teacher at Laurelhurst elementary (a continuum school), but I can't get any details about where the cut will be. Presumably in the resource room?
Is there anywhere where SPS breaks down exactly where the cuts are going to be and why?
Hope some media shows up. Chopping block chocolate chips and bye bye teacher blondies has the potential to go viral (I hope).
SavvyVoter