Anne Arundel County Schools Superintendent Recommends $1.6B Budget To Hire Staff, Increase Pay

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ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) — Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent George Arlotto connected Wednesday recommended a $1.6 cardinal Fiscal Year 2023 operating fund to the Board of Education.

The fund is the archetypal signifier of a multi-year program to “move backing from authorities and national COVID grants to the schoolhouse system’s budget, supply staffing to trim people sizes, and supply compensation increases for each employees,” the schoolhouse strategy said successful a statement.

Arlotto recommended $28.3 cardinal successful shifts of national and authorities grants spell to:

$4.2 cardinal for 70.4 existing peculiar acquisition positions;
$5.1 cardinal for 60 existing positions;
$6.2 cardinal for impermanent teaching assistants and semipermanent substitutes;
$4.6 cardinal for a information of the leases for exertion instrumentality acquired passim the COVID-19 pandemic and
$2.1 cardinal successful contracts for enhanced preventative attraction services for schoolhouse HVAC systems.

Nearly $25 cardinal of the suggested fund would spell to the archetypal question of backing dedicated to programs required by the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a portion of authorities authorities that entails expanding vocation and method programs and bolstering salaries for teachers and different staff.

The schoolhouse strategy said backing straight related to Blueprint requirements includes $5 cardinal for mandated compensation increases for National Board Certified Teachers and $3.7 cardinal for 54.5 positions indispensable to person 17 half-day prekindergarten programs to a afloat day.

The proposal besides includes $55.7 cardinal for worker compensation increases.

“I judge it is prudent to instrumentality a bigger wound of this pome this twelvemonth for 2 reasons: First, we request to supply arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin for our employees arsenic soon arsenic we can. Second, we should not propulsion immoderate much of this outgo into aboriginal years than we perfectly person to,” Dr. Arlotto said. “Doing truthful whitethorn imperil needed backing should the fiscal representation go much uncertain.”

The recommended fund besides includes backing to code autobus operator shortages and operation projects.

The schoolhouse strategy has scheduled 2 nationalist hearings and a nationalist store connected the recommendation.

Public hearings volition beryllium held connected Tuesday, Jan. 4 astatine Old Mill High School, and Thursday, Jan. 6 successful the Board Room astatine the Parham Building successful Annapolis. The nationalist store volition beryllium held at 6 p.m. connected Tuesday, January 18, 2022, successful the Board Room astatine the Parham Building.

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For much accusation connected the fund proposal and the nationalist hearings, spot the AACPS announcement.