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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two out of two sped teachers are leaving?  They have only been there a couple of years.  Why the huge turnover?[/quote]

It is DCPS. Teacher turnover is pretty common. There are only 2 special education teachers because few students at Key have IEPs at all.

What grade will you child be in and do they have an IEP now? How many hours are in your current plan?[/quote]

Wow -  I can not imagine only having 2 Special Education teachers in a school that goes from PreK4 - 5th grade and is a large as Key.   [/quote]

There are 438 students at Key. 8% have IEPs - so about 34 students.

Of course we have no idea what their IEPs are for or how many hours with a special ed teacher they need. Some may need no time with a special ed teacher but instead need 4 hours a week with a speech therapist or time with a psychologist. Some may need 1-2 hours with a special ed teacher a week.

But special ed staffing is dictated by the IEP hours in the aggregate.

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with 2 special ed teachers - that is at most 55 teaching hours a week for special ed  (I assume 9AM - 3PM for a teaching school day and some time for lunch)
with 35 students with an IEP, that averages to 1.5 hours a student.

My child who has dyslexia [not at Key but a NW DCPS] has 5 hours a week of pull out / push in.  This does not include Speech and OT services.   I know this is at the high side - but as 1 child he would take a little less than 10% of the total hours available across the school.   I would guess Key is under staffed.
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I think understaffing must be pretty common. Our DCPS (likely with higher needs than Key) has a single special ed teacher for all of PK3-1st grade. My son had 10 hrs of push-in special ed in K. There's no way that she'd be able to serve all the kids who had push-in time (or needed it). As a result the school greatly discourages IEPs, and turns push-in into groups or group pull-outs.  Which has worked fine for my son because he also gets additional social skills support ... but yeah, still understaffed.[/quote]

For some kids small group push-in or pull-out services would be great. I'm not sure my child necessarily needs to have the support done by a special ed teacher. I wonder if that's Key's model instead of putting all the work on the special ed teachers. Maybe the teacher's keep leaving because they're burnout with the workload.[/quote]

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