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Staffing and infrastructure expansion for community schools

3:16:00

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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the staffing levels for community schools, and Flavia Puello-Perdomo explains the recent efforts to expand the infrastructure to support the growing number of community schools.

  • The DOE is in the process of bringing on 10 additional staff members to support the community schools initiative
  • There has been a significant expansion of community schools, with 108 added in 2022-2023, and steady growth in previous years
  • The expansion had been managed with the same infrastructure until recent efforts to address staffing gaps
Rita Joseph
3:16:00
So how many people you have on staff now that's open?
Flavia Puello-Perdomo
3:16:02
So right now we are in the process of bringing 10 additional staff members to be able to support the initiative.
3:16:11
And just to give you a sense of that, in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three we added 108 community schools, 2021, '20 '20 '2 '50 '1, '20 '18, '20 '19, '20 '6.
3:16:23
Throughout all that duration this was like doubling up the number of schools that we supported with the same infrastructure until now.
Rita Joseph
3:16:30
So you have 10 more new staffers on your team?
Flavia Puello-Perdomo
3:16:34
We have 10 people that we're working to bring on board.
3:16:36
That is correct.
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