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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing is going to improve with the special education teacher and para shortage until something is done about salaries. As someone earlier posted, compensation is a joke for paras. Even with the benefits, its not worth it for a lot of people. The work is hard and they are at the bottom of the totem pole in schools. Most likely you are going to get poorly educated people but occasionally you get lucky and get a college educated former SAHM or dad who isn't dependent on the pay and may just want benefits for a spouse who is self-employed.

As for special education teachers, it's absurd that they are not paid at a higher rate than general ed teachers. They have an especially hard job. No wonder so many leave after a few years. [/quote]

+1. At the very least, the larger districts should be partnering with local universities and providing BACB supervision hours to grad students who are working towards ABA certification. Most grad students work at private clinics as BTs or RBTs and make roughly what paras make but they get supervision hours covered. If the school districts would provide supervision hours and hire the grad students to fill para roles, they'd get many more qualified workers and it would take so much of the teachers' plates. The larger districts that offer a lot of SPED services absolutely could do this.[/quote]

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