They really, really don’t like paying support staff. Minimum wage for some of the hardest work I ever did. This includes special education services.
Huh thats wild. Some of my coworkers are support staff and here they have some pretty decent wages, above cali minimum in a lower COL state. I have heard even here it's highly volatile and the wage they get is determined by negotiations between the people hiring the staff and the fiscal intermediary as well as the depth of the IEPs and ISPs. If the person coordinating goes to bat for their support staff typically the wage can be good where I'm at.
In my old district in CT they negotiated a raise from the state minimum to $18.00 with a 32 hour maximum per week, but subsequently removed all the classroom behavioral specialists and therapists to compensate. It’s not a living wage here.
Oof. Here they've been skimping on vision specialists and Orientation and Mobility programs. They're essentially cycling a handful of people across most of the state.
They really, really don’t like paying support staff. Minimum wage for some of the hardest work I ever did. This includes special education services.
Huh thats wild. Some of my coworkers are support staff and here they have some pretty decent wages, above cali minimum in a lower COL state. I have heard even here it's highly volatile and the wage they get is determined by negotiations between the people hiring the staff and the fiscal intermediary as well as the depth of the IEPs and ISPs. If the person coordinating goes to bat for their support staff typically the wage can be good where I'm at.
In my old district in CT they negotiated a raise from the state minimum to $18.00 with a 32 hour maximum per week, but subsequently removed all the classroom behavioral specialists and therapists to compensate. It’s not a living wage here.
Oof. Here they've been skimping on vision specialists and Orientation and Mobility programs. They're essentially cycling a handful of people across most of the state.