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District 200 outlines staffing reorganization: instructional coaching cut, special education and CTE roles added
Summary
Administrators presented a draft staffing plan for 2025-26 that reallocates 2.4 FTE districtwide, eliminates the instructional coaching program, creates new special education positions, and proposes splitting the fine and applied arts division into separate fine-and-performing-arts and career and technical education divisions.
District 200 administrators presented staffing recommendations at the committee of the whole meeting Thursday that would reshuffle existing full-time-equivalent (FTE) positions for the 2025-26 school year without increasing the district's total FTE or producing additional net ongoing cost.
Administrators said the district's instructional FTE for the current year stands at 228.8 and that the proposed plan results in a net districtwide reduction of about 2.4 FTE overall. The proposal would eliminate the district's instructional coaching program (a reduction of about 2.8 FTE in the instructional support category) after a multi-year review of outcomes, create a special education science teacher position, split a single special education program-and-site program chair into two separate program-chair positions, and reallocate other FTE into program needs.
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