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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS pays para educators $17 per hour and special education teachers over $60 per hour. Huge difference in cost and abilities in the position.[/quote]

I work for MCPS.

I am a special education teacher with a master's degree.

I do not make $60 per hour.  Not even close.  [/quote]
But I bet it's a lot more than $17 - a full time (the rare 7 hour) para gets about $22,000 a year. 3 years in with a masters gets you to $60,000 a year.

Night and day.[/quote]

About 20 years ago, IEPs actually were written with special education support. MCPS began phasing in para educators instead of special education teachers to cut costs. Unfortunately for the students, the skill level and expertise is not the same.[/quote]

But what the shortages are telling us is that there are no special ed teachers, OTs, SLPs, school psychs, etc. to hire. Nobody wants to do the job. IDEA is a ridiculously underfunded mandate that basically demands schools be a bottomless pit of resources without actually giving them the funds or staffing to do so. [/quote]

Please take an Economics 101 course.

It is NOT that there are no Spec Ed teachers, OTs, etc, it is that they can be paid more to do less elsewhere.  Increase the pay and they will come back. [/quote]

The attitude that it’s ok to deny students with disabilities the supports and services they need for FAPE because the Federal funds are not enough is a flawed argument.

Does MCPS want to loose the millions of dollars that they receive currently? MCPS has a choice, for what they currently receive, they are required to follow the IDEA. If they want to ignore the federal anti-discrimination laws, all MCPS has to do is give back all sources of federal funding.

Also, what’s the mission of MCPS? Is it to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education for all students?  If so the school system has a responsibility to follow the IDEA, Section 504, and the ADA.

MCPS wastes money on pet projects like a Kids Museum but they short change staffing for special education. They have bad employees that are gate keepers in schools that unfairly discriminate and retaliate against students who advocate for services. The culture of special education in MCPS is to force parents to hire lawyers just for students to get the bare minimum. Many families pay thousands of dollars for private services so their children can make progress. The funding priorities of Dr. McKnight shows how little MCPS cares about educating all students.[/quote]

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