{"id":1546,"date":"2012-03-22T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2012-03-21T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:24:04","slug":"board-wide-school-based-staffing-allocations-for-2012-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/board-wide-school-based-staffing-allocations-for-2012-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Wide School-Based Staffing Allocations for 2012-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TDSB  staff delivered to Trustees their recommendations on school-based  staffing allocations for next year. The whole Board will vote on  school-based staffing allocations at a special meeting next week on <strong>March 28<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The APA was advised by our Trustee Howard Goodman the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>roughly 80% of the TDSB&#8217;s budget ($2B out of $2.6B) pays for  school-based staff and is set through this process. The remainder of the  TDSB&#8217;s budget is set from mid-April through June.<\/li>\n<li>TDSB staff  estimates that the TDSB is facing an $85M funding shortfall for next  year, and their school-staffing recommendations would fill $51M of that  gap. Filling the remainder of the gap, an estimated $34M, would be part  of the second phase of the TDSB&#8217;s budget discussions.<\/li>\n<li> staff recommends:\n<ul>\n<li> 400 new Early Childhood Educators, 200 new elementary teachers,  and 400 new lunchroom supervisors (mostly to roll out full day  Kindergarten).<\/li>\n<li>no significant changes in the number of Special Needs Assistants, Swim Instructors, and Secondary-school-based Safety Monitors.<\/li>\n<li>reduction  in the number of Educational Assistants from 493 to 63. The remaining  EAs would be deployed in French Immersion SK classrooms to help students  rapidly adjust to a French-speaking environment. This brings TDSB  closer in line to the use of EAs in other Boards across Ontario, and  similar to the use of EAs in schools in North York and Etobicoke prior  to amalgamation.<\/li>\n<li>reduction of in the number of Secondary  teachers by 200 (from 5845 to 5645). This is in keeping with the recent  demographic trend of fewer teenagers as the &#8220;echo&#8221; generation graduates  and also to move the average secondary student to teacher ratio from  20.9 to 21.4. The Ministry funding standard is 22 students per teacher.<\/li>\n<li>reduction of 39 elementary VP positions (from 257 to 218) to move the TDSB closer to the Provincial funding formula.<\/li>\n<li>reduction of school Office Clerical positions from 1224 to 1090, to bring the TDSB in line with Ministry funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The  numbers  included in the Staff Allocation Report reflect the reduction  in\u00a0the  total complement of staff and not the total number of layoffs.<br \/>\nRetirements,   resignations and promotions will account for some downsizing of\u00a0staff   however it is anticipated that there will be layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Although  he does not prefer these recommendations, Trustee Goodman has advised  the APA that his initial thought is to support these recommendations. He  believes that if the trustees reject the most contentious of these  recommendations (EAs and Office Clerks), the TDSB will be unable to  balance the budget. Boards, including TDSB, that have failed to balance  their budgets in the past have been put under supervision by the  Ministry of Education, and budget cuts have then been made.<\/p>\n<p>Before  next week&#8217;s TDSB trustee vote, Trustee Goodman is asking for parental  input on the TDSB staff recommendations, including whether the Trustees  should not balance the TDSB&#8217;s budget with the potential that the  Minister of Education may place the TDSB under supervision.  He can be  reached at Telephone: 416-395-8403<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:howard.goodman@tdsb.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\">howard.goodman@tdsb.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to read the full report, here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/boardroom\/bd_agenda\/AgendaMeeting2.asp?siteid=88&amp;menuid=391&amp;enablenav=true&amp;id=12\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TDSB staff delivered to Trustees their recommendations on school-based staffing allocations for next year. The whole Board will vote on school-based staffing allocations at a special meeting next week on March 28. The APA was advised by our Trustee Howard Goodman the following: roughly 80% of the TDSB&#8217;s budget ($2B out of $2.6B) pays for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-awareness","tag-tdsb","tag-trustee-howard-goodman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}