Agenda 04-28-20 Attachment C - Orange County Schools Board of Education FY2020-21 Operating Budget Request

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Agenda Item #1 Attachment C OCS Board of Education Approved 2020-2021 Local Operating Budget Request 2020-2021 EXPANSION BUDGET continued • $192,000 to increase the maintenance technician staff by four. This expansion request is supported by the following data: o OCS currently has one maintenance technician serving 93,000 square feet. Industry standards are one maintenance technician serving 50,000 square feet. o An additional 50,000 square feet will be added to the district upon completion of the Cedar Ridge High School wing addition and 26,000 square feet added with the opening of the Orange County Schools Welcome Center would be in additional to the 93,000 square feet currently being served. o $25.8 million capital improvement budget projects ongoing in the district. Our final focus area, Stakeholder Engagement, received Board support and approval for the following expansion items: • $8o,000 to hire a translator to support schools. We continue to welcome an increase in non-English speaking families attending Orange County Schools. To better support these students and their families, adding a translator will aid in our day to day communications and allow us to better meet the needs of these families. We desire for all of non-English speaking families to feel welcomed and valued as a partner with us in their child's education. • $142,000 to add two equity facilitators to build capacity related to culturally relevant teaching practices. Not only would these positions assist in building capacity surrounding culturally relevant teaching practices but we also envision these facilitators; (1)teaching African American and Latinx history courses at the two high schools; (2) Examining policies,practices and protocols through an equity lens; and(3)Additional support to 13 school based equity teams. At this time,the OCS Equity Department consists of one staff member. We know in looking at our end of grade reading data for grades 3-8, our marginalized students reflect the greatest disparities. Based on the below data: o Achievement is stagnant for all students o Subgroups consistently below 40%in reading District Reading E -8 _4P5 _ELL _7-P _YA. 5M2-118 2l1BWA 2!4#ws 20&Mfi 9MGM7 2M72M& 8 Mwt PJ Black EUS ELL Fiepenic SWd Whte 51 30.1 29.9 82.1 61 35.6 40. 13.4 41 22 72.7 69.0 M.Z X 11.6 87.8 19.7 72,3 MA M V.0 11Z M.2 19.8 71.1 5 M.S. V.S. 14,6 87 24,2 75,6 U. M.71 37, 26.8 M.5 21.7 71.8 55 MAJ 3&sI 1&BI 341 13,9 70.3 12