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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These teachers have a choice.  They can select to be employed by DCPS or not.

It is not as if the Janney PTA is limiting their ability for employment.  Janney PTA offered a position, they accepted.  They know what DCPS offers - it is not a secret.[/quote]

What?  So confused.  The teachers work for DCPS.  Always have and always will. [/quote]

No. The lead teachers work for DCPS. The ELL and special education/reading specialists work for DCPS. The other extra teachers for 1st-5th are hired by the Janney PTA. [/quote]

We've been thinking about this for our school. How does the benefits for the hires work? And are there insurance issues that need to be addressed?[/quote]

PTA would have to be willing to provide all of that, as well as manage sick leave, maternity and so forth. Typically benefits cost about 35% of the salary.

IMO this is a fairness/employment issue vis a vis the other school staff. Even if you can offer insurance, a PTA is unlikely to offer any sort of parity in terms of retirement benefits, professional development and so forth. [/quote]

Classroom aids are basically administrative, giving teacher more time to teach. They handle non-teaching tasks for teachers like photocopying, cutting starts out, stuffing folders, walking kids to resources classes, and stuff a parent volunteer in the classroom could do, etc. They are not teachers. They don't do professional development. They do not work the same hours as teachers. [/quote]

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