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Board skeptical of staffing-ratio changes; testing‑facilitator proposal faces pushback
Summary
Superintendent staff presented proposed 2025–26 staffing-ratio adjustments that would reduce some instructional ratios and add a testing facilitator at each school; board members expressed concern about removing teachers from classrooms and asked to keep current ratios for 2024–25 while allowing principals to request unit allocations.
Superintendent staff presented a draft staffing plan for 2025–26 at the Jan. 9 Marion County School Board work session that included lower instructional support ratios and a testing‑facilitator position for each campus.
The proposal: Staff said the committee of principals recommended reductions in some ESE (special programs) ratios, adding a testing facilitator at each traditional campus, and generally decreasing some instructional-support ratios. Committee estimates put the additional cost at about $6.4 million districtwide, plus $2.7 million for planned staffing at two new schools (identified in the briefing as "W" and "X"); staff said the total incremental cost would be roughly $9.1 million. If the board limited the change to adding a testing facilitator at each campus and left other ratios unchanged, staff estimated the…
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