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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A better use of COVID funds would have been for Special Education staff to provide the compensatory services awarded for lack of special education services and accommodations during COVID. Students with disabilities fell behind during COVID at higher rates than their non-disabled peers. Yet the Office of Special Education can’t find people to provide compensatory services and demand to only reimburse parents for private services at 1/4 the market rate.

Bocce Ball, Kids Museum, or instruction to help students catch up to where they should have been if services and accommodations were provided? Most parents would choose the instruction.[/quote]

See, this would have made sense.

Aside from the problem I have using designated money for alternate purposes, I get frustrated that actual learning often seems to be the lowest priority. I want all MCPS kids to have all the extras, but let’s start with teaching them. [/quote]

MCPS had a budget surplus for FY21, the year students were virtual and students with disabilities didn’t receive special education services and accommodations. MCPS received COVID relief funds which they squandered on pet projects. Very little actually went to addressing learning loss due to online learning.

Pet projects line the pockets of those who get the contracts. New positions in Central Office give promotions and high salaries. MCPS lowest priorities are teaching students.[/quote]

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