Andy Ratliff
8:13 - 8:50
"the recommendations are 50.5 teaching FTE.. In the memo, that's split between elementary specialists and holdback teachers. That's about even, about 50/50 split on that. Really though, this really is going to effectively allow us to put about those, those 50 teachers back into schools kind of where they're needed, just like holdbacks."
“the recommendations are 50.5 teaching FTE.. In the memo, that's split between elementary specialists and holdback teachers. That's about even, about 50/50 split on that. Really though, this really is going to effectively allow us to put about those, those 50 teachers back into schools kind of where they're needed, just like holdbacks.”
- Speaker
- Andy Ratliff
- Timestamp
- 8:13 – 8:50
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
As far as what's in Board Member Memo 6, the recommendations are 50.5 teaching FTE.. In the memo, that's split between elementary specialists and holdback teachers. That's about even, about 50/50 split on that. Really though, this really is going to effectively allow us to put about those, those 50 teachers back into schools kind of where they're needed, just like holdbacks. We used around, I think, I think it was about 23 holdback FTE to shore up the specialist model for this year.
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