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MCPS proposes tiered staffing standards, LRE model for special education and phased rollout beginning FY27
Summary
The Fiscal Management Committee reviewed a proposed staffing-standards plan that uses FARMS-based tiers to allocate staff, shifts special education to an LRE-based ratio model, and phases implementation from elementary schools in FY27 through high schools by FY29–31.
Alan Francois, deputy chief of financial oversight, framed the staffing-standards project as an effort to improve transparency, equity and predictability in how the district assigns positions to schools.
Francois said the standards rely on three inputs—free-and-reduced-meal (FARMS) participation, school size and class-size/workload—and propose a tiered allocation so higher‑need schools receive lower student-to-staff ratios. He noted changes to tiers since the work session: tier 3 now covers 70–100% FARMS (expanded to capture more highly impacted schools) and tier 2 boundaries were adjusted to reduce…
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