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Middle School - Final Staff Meeting, Budget Cuts, & Student Population
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Middle School - Final Staff Meeting, Budget Cuts, & Student Population
Description (Dublin Core)
Staff Meeting 5/29/2020
Agenda: Wrap up the year
Reflection:
Today we learned that our Title 1 funding will not be increased and most will be cut for the next year. We are losing 2 staff members because of this cut and that leaves us in a place where we need to find elective classes for 240 students next year. We additionally lost another elective teacher this year as her funding was moved towards an instructional coach position. Middle schools are also in a unique situation right now as we are experiencing a drop in our attendance numbers. This drop is because our students right now were born during the economic recession of 2008 and the years immediately following. The 2008 recession is credited with a drop in the birth rate from 2008 to 2010.
There were tears on our meeting as teachers are frustrated with our system moving forward. Our district was very fortunate to have the finances to weather this original economic storm but as we look forward we have learned that we don’t have the money to keep everyone on staff.
Agenda: Wrap up the year
Reflection:
Today we learned that our Title 1 funding will not be increased and most will be cut for the next year. We are losing 2 staff members because of this cut and that leaves us in a place where we need to find elective classes for 240 students next year. We additionally lost another elective teacher this year as her funding was moved towards an instructional coach position. Middle schools are also in a unique situation right now as we are experiencing a drop in our attendance numbers. This drop is because our students right now were born during the economic recession of 2008 and the years immediately following. The 2008 recession is credited with a drop in the birth rate from 2008 to 2010.
There were tears on our meeting as teachers are frustrated with our system moving forward. Our district was very fortunate to have the finances to weather this original economic storm but as we look forward we have learned that we don’t have the money to keep everyone on staff.
* A reflection of my final (virtual) staff meeting for this school year.
Date (Dublin Core)
May 29, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Morgan Keena
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Morgan Keena
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
text
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--K12
English
Emotion
English
Economy
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
teachers
employment
middle school
funding
budget
tears
recession
Collection (Dublin Core)
K-12
Secondary Education
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/29/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/16/2020
11/09/2020
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10/17/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/29/2020
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This item was submitted on May 29, 2020 by Morgan Keena using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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