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Q1

Provide's a list of elementary schools that do not have a full time assistant principal, staff development teacher, counselor, reading specialist, or media specialist positions. What is the cost of adding these positions to the budget?

Q2

Do we connect families with outside non-profits or county agencies for counseling services?

Q3

Where are we with the Middle Years Programme at Seneca Valley? What will it take to fund the program to its complete state?

Q4

Provide specifics regarding the funding for instrumental music support.

Q5

What are class sizes in secondary schools?

Q6

What is the current level of service of translation services and what is the plan to support the future increases in needs?

Q7

Provide the number of Promethean boards and chromebooks ratios. In addition, provide the cost of providing promethean boards to all classroom that do not currently have them.

Q8

Provide data on the number of substitutes that are bilingual.

Q9

Provide information on creating a pool of interpreters. Do we collaborate with the county and use their pool of interpreters?

Q10

Provide information regarding the security at the Silver Spring International Field House.

Q11

Provide an update on the status of using a company to provide substitute teachers as a resource.

Q12

What is the rational for reducing the administrative positions at Poolesville High School?

Q13

What is the savings for the social worker positions changing from 12-month to 10-month plus 20 days? What work do social workers currently do in the summer (how is it different than during the school year) and how will this work be covered after the position is changed to the new schedule? Will staff schedules be staggered to ensure all the time is covered and students have support?

Q14

Provide a list of schools that have a reading initiative position allocated. In addition, provide a list of those schools that have a reading initiative position and use the position for other purposes.

Q15

What is the cost to pay for FARMS students to take Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) tests?

Q16

What support is being provided to students for college application process in the Watkins Mill Cluster? What is the status of the college/career information coordinator position in the cluster?

Q17

What SAT materials and support is provided to students? How are these resources communicated to the parents and students?

Q18

Are there funds available for highly impacted schools to support field trip costs? How many field trips are taken by the average elementary school vs. highly impacted schools?

Q19

Provide information on the Rockville Pipe Band. Why is MCPS not funding the Band?

Q20

What is the Grades 1 and 2 average class size for non-Title 1 and non-focus schools? What is the cost to restore the 35.5 reading initiative teacher positions?

Q21

How are reading initiative teachers used in elementary schools? Is there any data to show the impact of reading initiative positions?

Q22

What percentage of parents take advantage of the PEP home visit component part of the program? How often do visits occur?

Q23

What is being done to recruit teachers who can work in the dual language program? Are there pathways for current teachers and paraeducators to be able to teach in another language in one of these programs?

Q24

Who are the managers/leaders and "teams" working on the plans for the accelerators?

Q25

Provide more detailed information on the plan for the implementation of the math accelerator.

Q27

What is the cost to bring down the student to counselor ratio from 800 to 600 (elementary schools)?

Q28

Given the increase in ESOL students, and taking into account the increased intensity of their needs, what would a proportional increase in the number of ESOL counselors be?

Table Of Contents(TOC)

A
Accelerators - Managers/Leaders & Teams	24
Administrative Positions - Poolesville High School	12
Advanced Placement & International Baccalaureate Test Fees	15
C
Class Size - Grade 1 and 2	20
Class Size - Secondary Schools	5
College/Career Information Coordinator - Watkins Mill High School	16
Counseling Services - Connecting with Non-Profits or County Agencies	2
Counselor Ratio - Elementary School	27
D
Dual Language Program - Teacher Recruitment	23
E
Elementary Schools - Less Than Full-time Positions	1
ESOL Counselors	28
F
Field Trips - Funding Resources for Highly Impacted Schools	18
I
Instrumental Music Support - Funding	4
Interpreters - Identifying Resources	9
M
Math Accelerator - Implementation	25
Middle Years Programme - Seneca Valley	3
P
Promethean Boards and Chromebooks	7
R
Reading Initiative - Elementary School	21
Reading Initiative - Position Allocations	14
Rockville Pipe Band	19
S
SAT - Communication of Resources	17
Security - Silver Spring International Field House	10
Social Workers - Change in Work Schedule (12-month to 10-month)	13
Substitutes - Bilingual Resources	8
Substitutes - Outsourcing Hiring	11
T
Translation Services	6