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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Special Education is in a complete free fall. My child was determined to need compensatory services but they couldn’t find a provider and I cannot hire a private special education teacher at the rate MCPS is offering to reimburse. The net result is that MCPS is way out of compliance with a Letter of Findings from MSDE and my child’s IEP.

Why doesn’t MCPS hire some Special Ed Teachers as 12 month employees? RTSE are 12 month employees. Why don’t they provide Special Ed services?

The OP’s letter went to students who MCPS said qualified for ESY. What about students who had the need but schools denied services due to the lack of teachers?

Finally, what is MCPS doing to fill Special Ed vacancies this fall? So many teachers resigned at the end of the year.[/quote]

RTSEs are stretched past the breaking point with their existing duties. "Just have a RTSE do it" is not nearly as simple as you assume.

The only solution I can see here is to throw lots of money at this problem. Either to reimburse parents for private services or to make special ed a desirable job to put up with all the stress and paperwork and high caseloads and nasty admin and parents. It's basically two jobs in one so maybe it should pay double (no, I'm not kidding; throwing a measly $2000/year per teacher is not nearly enough).

Either that or Congress needs to take a long look at this massive unfunded mandate they've created with IDEA and either provide funding commensurate with the entitlements they've heaped on school districts, or amend the law to lessen the entitlements and thus the funding burden. Not nice, but what realistic solutions are there? You can scream to the hills what districts MUST do and what you're entitled to but if there's nobody to do the job, well, then what? [/quote]

All This!!  A as pp noted above, they would work the summer for about 4x their normal pay.  And while I don’t begrudge the person for looking out for themselves, their own health and well-being and likely need for a break to be able to come back in the fall, no district is going to be able to pay teachers 2/3/4x what they are currently making without their being big hits elsewhere in their budget.  There is policy and then there is implementation. [/quote]

Big hits elsewhere?  You mean like cutting out layers of administration.  Boo hoo.  MCPS has millions of dollars they squander every year and no one cares.  [/quote]

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