FY05 FTE Reductions

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FY05 FTE Reductions RIFs Without
OverrideFY04 Class Size Averages

• Clarifications for Finance Committee
• Winchester School Committee 3/23/04

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FTE Full-Time-Equivalent Position

• For preparing, comparing budgets, we count FTEs,
  not people
• Offers a simple, uniform metric for costing and
  comparison
• Important since we employ a mix of full-time and
  part-time staff.
• Example
• One full time English teacher one FTE
• Two half-time music teachers one FTE
• These three people fill two FTE positions.
• A staff of many half-, quarter-, and eighth-time
  coaches may look huge, but may boil down to only
  a few FTEs

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Individuals Full-, Part-time teachers, etc.

• FinCom members asked how many people not FTEs
  would be affected by an override defeat
• Must consider number of people, too
• From a financial perspective
• the Town must budget for layoff costs
• From an employers and educators perspective
• Superintendent must know which teachers receive
  pink slips
• Superintendent must plan to redistribute their
  students.

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Failed Override ? 20.87 FTE Reduction

• Reductions from FY05 Budget Request
• Elementary schools 9.27 FTEs
• Middle school 4.6 FTEs
• High school 7.0 FTEs
• 20.87 FTEs eliminated
• Core teaching positions eliminated
• Non-core programs eliminated or reduced
• Students to be shifted into larger classes, study
  halls.
• Cuts are permanent
• Additional staff cuts in FY06, FY07 would be
  mostly core teachers
• Details available at http//www.winchester.k12.ma.
  us/SC/documents.html

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FTE Reductions and Layoffs

• 4.8 new FTEs eliminated no layoffs
• 3.0 FTEs to retire no layoffs
• 13.07 existing FTEs eliminated gt13.07 layoffs
  
• 20.87 FTEs total
• Retiring employees
• 2 _at_ McCall Middle School
• 1 _at_ Muraco Elementary

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• Each position eliminated,
• new positions,
• unfilled retirement positions,
• laid off teachers,
• will leave students needing to be accommodated
  in other classrooms

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People ? Positions

• More than 13.07 teachers laid off
• Many positions staffed with part-time employees
• Laid off employee not necessarily certified to
  fill new position
• Specific number depends on
• programs to be eliminated
• contractual rules for reducing staff

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FTE Reductions Teacher Layoffs Elementary
Schools
estimates based on individual teachers
associated with eliminated programs and/or
specific eliminated positions
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FTE Reductions Teacher Layoffs Middle School
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FTE Reductions Teacher Layoffs High School
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FTE Reductions Teacher Layoffs - Totals
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FY04 Class Size Averages - Elementary Schools

• Class size average 19.4
• 1,704 students divided by 88 classrooms
• At least 1/3 are larger than 20
• Elementary classes have been kept small, since
  research tells us that this is the most effective
  predictor of success.

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FY04 Class Size Averages Middle School

• Average 23 students in core subjects
• English, mathematics, science, and social studies
  
• By grade level
• Grade 6 24
• Grade 7 24
• Grade 8 20

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FY04 Class Size Averages High School

• Averages differ by ability level
• Honors and AP classes 23
• C1 Classes 21
• C2 Classes 16
• 31 of Honors and AP classes are larger than 25
• 29 of C1 classes are larger than 25
• 14 of C1, Honors, AP classes are larger than 27
• Each core teacher teaches 5 sections, as compared
  to 4 sections in many comparable districts

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• If the override fails, these class sizes will
  increase.
• By exactly how much we wont know until teachers
  are laid off and full student enrollment is
  known.
• If the override passes, we will hire the
  necessary staff to keep pace with growing
  enrollments to maintain reasonable class sizes
  and to continue to deliver the kind of quality
  education that Winchester has come to expect.