Originally Posted by
Russell Case
I spoke with 2 APDs in the past 3 days, 1 having attended the ATL meeting. They both said the number they’ve heard is 1000-1200. They and other DPS IPs have stated that they’re manned right now (or were) at the immediately post COVID rate, meaning capable of handling up to 23-2500 students per year, and have been as such even as the hiring has gone back to a normal 1000 people rate. I think they said ~30 DPS IPs were going to go away which stinks, and a certain % of SLIs would be back to the line. They’re just over staffed for the current hiring requirements.
Sorry not sorry about DPS. If they all went away, replaced by SLIs, that would be a great thing.