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Academics budget: HCPSS leaders flag unfunded professional learning, reorganization and coach shortages
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Division of Academics leaders said the FY26 proposal preserves central staff but leaves key learning supports unfunded, including professional learning wages and additional literacy, ELD and math coaches.
Chief Academic Officer Terri Savage and curriculum leaders told the Howard County Board of Education Thursday that the Division of Academics' FY26 proposal maintains core central-office positions but leaves several program priorities unfunded.
"Beginning on page 249 you will find the budget summary for the Division of Academics," Savage said. She described two major departments in the division'the Department of Special Education and the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment'and identified central office support and academic supports for schools as the primary programs.
Savage said the chief academic officer's program includes about 41 FTEs of central-office staff and that those positions account for roughly $7.3 million of…
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