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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]

No. The shortage has existed in all these positions for 10+ years all over the country, in every setting. It is not just an MCPS thing. Graduate programs are not producing enough graduates to meet the growing need, and people already in the field are burning out and quitting. And if you think the compensatory services issue is some unique MCPS incompetence, you are very myopic. Many other districts in other states are having the same problems. [/quote]

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